Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
There is always a sense of fear in everything I do. It doesn’t look like I am afraid, but I am always pushing myself. It is really difficult for me to be up here.” I reflected, “A witness can see how uncomfortable you feel pushing yourself to be here,” and she nodded.
Bessel van der Kolk
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Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
Dan Gable
Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.
Dalai Lama
With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.
J. Anthony Lukas
To overcome any sort of fear is satisfying, and to overcome it well is even better.
Hannah Kearney
I think the beauty of the writing of 'Game of Thrones' is not that the characters are fearless; it's how they overcome their fear, you know?
Natalie Dormer
In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.
Natan Sharansky
There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.
Lafcadio Hearn
I want everyone to live to their full potential without having to fear someone will try to knock them down or discriminate against them.
Halima Aden
When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
Tecumseh
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C. S. Lewis
It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
If you’ve had to overcome an obstacle or insecurity or fear... genuinely you can bet on that person because they have gathered themselves and found through their inner strength, they have determination, they have grit.
Carly Fiorina
Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault lines that will eventually tear asunder.
Barack Obama
There is no illusion great than fear.
Lao Tzu
That's one thing people don't know about me - I eat in my sleep. I can't keep things in the house; I literally have in my refrigerator water, coconut water, orange juice, hemp milk and like, tea bags. And that's really it. Because I eat in my sleep.
Denise Vasi
Critic, relent!Your hope for repentance Will meet with disapppointment.For this is the life,Not desert tents,Not camel's milk!
Abu Nuwas
I declare a holy war, my Moslem brothers! Murder the Jews! Murder them all.
Haj Amin al-Husseini
There is always a sense of fear in everything I do. It doesn’t look like I am afraid, but I am always pushing myself. It is really difficult for me to be up here.” I reflected, “A witness can see how uncomfortable you feel pushing yourself to be here,” and she nodded.
Bessel van der Kolk
