Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

Because humans are meaning-making creatures, we have a tendency to create some sort of image or story.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• I've never met anyone that is their image.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Never
  • Image
  • Met

• I am concerned if 25 percent of Americans think that President Obama is a Muslim. I mean, it's obviously a lack of knowledge. But also, it's for the Muslims as well, you know, because a small numbers of Muslims have really painted a very negative image of Islam.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Knowledge
  • Image
  • Islam

• I would like people to know me for who I am, especially since I think people have a very skewed image of me. I was playing a lot of cute characters, a lot of little girls; I was objectified. And I don't want people to think of me as that because it's not who I am, and because I've seen a lot of hostility towards that image.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Playing
  • Cute
  • Image

• The image I had was that Oprah books were fluffy.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Books
  • Image
  • Were

• I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Image
  • Decided
  • Publicity

• Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Beauty
  • Image
  • Infinite

• The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Image
  • Poetic
  • Psyche

• What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Lost

• I don't know if we tell women great news about themselves enough. You'd be surprised how often a young woman doesn't hear positive things about herself - not in her home, not at school. It's hard to create a beautiful image for yourself when you've never seen it or heard it.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Great
  • Women
  • School

• One of the differences between now and then is that the idea of body image is a much bigger issue now. Back then, just being kind of heavy and barrel-chested passed for heroic. Now, you wouldn't dare to play a hero without a lot of dieting and various specialised abdomen machines. But that was one of the things which was interesting about it and I did want to portray because there's good and bad.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Interesting

• Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Idea
  • Image
  • Conversion

• I have no interest in art. Let me clarify — I have no interest in non-nude images.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Art
  • Interest
  • Image

• Our self-perception determines our behavior. If we think we’re small, limited, inadequate creatures, then we tend to behave that way, and the energy we radiate reflects those thoughts no matter what we do. If we think we’re magnificent creatures with an infinite abundance of love and power to give, then we tend to behave that way. Once again, the energy around us reflects our state of awareness.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Small

• To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Giving

• The most reliable joy is to be out of doors, to be a creature among other creatures. I find it very restful.

  

  Ursula Goodenough
  • Joy
  • Doors
  • Creatures

• Human beings crave freedom at their core.

  

  John Ensign
  • Humans
  • Core
  • Crave

• For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Humans

• Men are foolish creatures sometimes, even the wisest of them.

  

  G.A. Henty
  • Men
  • Sometimes
  • Creatures

• Humans seem to be programmed to think of ambivalent feelings at the same time. That is the driving force behind human beings: to be the warrant of all things and to control other worlds.

  

  Kim Nam-joon BTS
  • Feelings
  • Humans
  • Worlds

• I distinguish two types of human beings, Love people, who love the sky and the flowers, and Power People, who are essentially sold on naked power.

  

  Richard Adams
  • People
  • Humans
  • Beings

• The retreat of the Arctic sea ice, the warming of the oceans, the rapid shrinking of the glaciers, the redistribution of species, the thawing of the permafrost—these are all new phenomena. It is only in the last five or ten years that global warming has finally emerged from the background “noise” of climate variability. And even so, the changes that can be seen lag behind the changes that have been set in motion. The warming that has been observed so far is probably only about half the amount required to bring the planet back into energy balance. This means that even if carbon dioxide were to remain stable at today’s levels, temperatures would still continue to rise, glaciers to melt, and weather patterns to change for decades to come.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Balance
  • Climate
  • Species

• Because humans are meaning-making creatures, we have a tendency to create some sort of image or story.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Humans
  • Image
  • Creatures