Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening; the smaller the doubt, the smaller the awakening. No doubt, no awakening.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it's a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Game
  • Giving
  • Best

• Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do. Never for an instant harbor a doubt of it.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Doubt

• I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Time
  • Doubt
  • Identity

• We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Movement
  • Potential

• There is no doubt that breath control is the means for mind control because the mind, like breath, is a part of air; because the nature of mobility is common to both; because the place of origin is the same for both; and because when one of them is controlled, the other gets controlled.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Control

• Are people like Tom Cruise in touch with their public? I doubt it. Footballers are more like the rock stars of yester-year: they are box office.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Rock
  • Doubt

• I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Doubt

• My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Life
  • Society
  • Doubt

• Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Doubt
  • Values

• One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Beautiful
  • Passion
  • Sense

• There is absolutely no doubt about it, and I may not be the one that does it, but the cloned child is coming. There is absolutely no way that it will not happen.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • May
  • Doubt
  • Child

• I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Up
  • Imagination
  • Doubt

• The year that 'Lost' started and premiered was, without a doubt, the most miserable year of my life. The level of despair and anguish that I was feeling; I was clinically depressed, and anyone that you talked to who knew me at the time will tell you that.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Life
  • Time
  • Feeling

• Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Doubt
  • New
  • Without

• I'm not going to doubt my life.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Doubt
  • My Life

• Without a doubt, even when I play with Black Label, when we have different guys I play with, everyone always brings their own magic, their own flavor to the soup, hands down.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Different
  • Black
  • Doubt

• There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Religion
  • Doubt
  • Matters

• Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

  

  Dan Millman
  • People
  • Success
  • Fear

• I hated school.

  

  Kate Mara
  • School
  • Hated

• It broke out with matchless fury. The rapid vehement fire. Him we praise above the earth, Fire, the fiery meteor of the dawn. Above the high gale, Higher than every cloud. Great his animal.

  

  Taliesin
  • Great
  • High
  • Earth

• After the November elections gave Republicans control of the Senate, voters made clear they wanted change. We were hopeful our leaders got the voters' message. However, after our speaker forced through the (spending bill) by passing it with Democratic votes and without time to read it, it seemed clear that we needed new leadership.

  

  Louie Gohmert
  • Time
  • Change
  • Control

• All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.

  

  John Milton
  • Well
  • Pleased

• The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening; the smaller the doubt, the smaller the awakening. No doubt, no awakening.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Doubt
  • Awakening