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 -
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 -
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 -
The image I had was that Oprah books were fluffy.
Tawni O'Dell -
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
Francis Bacon -
The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche.
Gaston Bachelard
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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 -
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 -
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 -
I have no interest in art. Let me clarify — I have no interest in non-nude images.
Aziz Ansari -
To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.
Bill Vaughan -
The most reliable joy is to be out of doors, to be a creature among other creatures. I find it very restful.
Ursula Goodenough
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Human beings crave freedom at their core.
John Ensign -
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 -
Men are foolish creatures sometimes, even the wisest of them.
G.A. Henty -
I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.
Vivienne Westwood -
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
For the most part we humans live with the false impression of security and a feeling of being at home in a seemingly familiar and trustworthily physical and human environment. But when the expected course of everyday life is interrupted, we realize that we are like shipwrecked people trying to keep their balance on a miserable plank in the open sea, having forgotten where they came from and not knowing whether they are drifting. But once we fully accept this, life becomes easier and there is no longer any disappointment.
Albert Einstein
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High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.
Thomas Kinkade -
Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?
Ray Bradbury -
Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.
Taylor Swift -
And we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.
George Eliot -
Because humans are meaning-making creatures, we have a tendency to create some sort of image or story.
Bessel van der Kolk