Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Many traumatized individuals are too hypervigilant to enjoy the ordinary pleasures that life has to offer, while other are too numb to absorb new experiences – or to be alert to signs of real danger. When the smoke detectors of the brain malfunction, people no longer run when they should be trying to escape or fight back when they should be defending themselves.
Bessel van der Kolk
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Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.
Omar Epps
They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.
Harold Rosenberg
New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.
Daniel Akaka
There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.
Harry Bridges
Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
Imelda Marcos
I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
Hansika Motwani
Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.
Tony Snow
There's always chatter about a 'Chuck' movie. So nobody's opposed to it. It's just a matter of getting everything lined up.
Yvonne Strahovski
When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.
Larry Wilmore
Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.
Samuel Hopkins
Without a conscious life-purpose a man is totally lost, drifting, adapting to events rather than creating events. Without knowing his life-purpose a man lives a weakend, impotent existence, perhaps even becoming even sexually impotent or prone to mechanical and disinterested sex.
David Deida
Many traumatized individuals are too hypervigilant to enjoy the ordinary pleasures that life has to offer, while other are too numb to absorb new experiences – or to be alert to signs of real danger. When the smoke detectors of the brain malfunction, people no longer run when they should be trying to escape or fight back when they should be defending themselves.
Bessel van der Kolk
