Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

As we’ve seen, the essence of trauma is feeling godforsaken, cut off from the human race.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• Nike was the essence of sports, transcendence through sports.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Sports
  • Essence
  • Through

• Desire is the essence of a man.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Essence

• I really don’t see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Romantic
  • For Him

• There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Finish
  • Human Race
  • Farce

• I always carry a good lipstick with me, like MAC in Ruby Woo. It has a matt finish, the essence of that vintage glamour look.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Good
  • Looks
  • Essence

• As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Life
  • Done
  • Practice

• Learn to see it in thyself and thou wilt understand the infinite essence, hidden in all illusory forms. Understand that the world which thou knowest is only one of the aspects of the infinite world, and things and phenomena are merely hierolgyphics of deeper ideas.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • World
  • Ideas
  • Essence

• These humiliations are the essence of the game.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Game
  • Essence
  • Humiliations

• The human race is evolving to the realization that what is happening on the level of consciousness both precedes and determines what happens in the world.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Human Race
  • Realization

• The human race is almost addicted to war. It's like we just can't stop.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • War
  • Stop
  • Human Race

• All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Enemy
  • Essence

• Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Beginning
  • Humanity
  • Compassion

• What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Good
  • Essence

• The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Energy

• The history of the human race, viewed as a whole, may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • History
  • Human Race
  • Developed

• I thought Essence had a lot more points. She seemed more active.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Essence
  • Active
  • Points

• The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.

  

  Plato
  • Knowledge
  • Essence
  • Self-knowledge

• And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.

  

  Plato
  • Love
  • True
  • Earth

• I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Christianity
  • Revenge
  • Human Race

• Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One has to keep this constantly in mind if one wishes to understand spiritual movements and their development. Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor and human creation, in however exalted a guise the latter may present themselves to us.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Pain
  • Force
  • Satisfaction

• The essence of influence is pull. It's an attraction. Great influencers attract people, to themselves, and to their ideas.

  

  Bob Burg
  • Ideas
  • Influence
  • Essence

• But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play at cards? Why drink? Why read? To make some hour less dreary. It occupies me to turn back regards On what I've seen or pondered, sad or cheery, And what I write I cast upon the stream To swim or sink. I have had at least my dream.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Dream
  • Write
  • Publish

• As we’ve seen, the essence of trauma is feeling godforsaken, cut off from the human race.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Essence
  • Trauma
  • Human Race