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
  • Realization
  • Human Race

• 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

• I love to travel. I think it's the best education to experience how other people live. It reminds us of the abundance and variety we have in the world, but at our essence, we are all the same, we all want the same things: to live well, pursue our dreams, and be happy.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• 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 ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable of the greatest happiness.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Freedom
  • Destiny
  • Human Race

• 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

• Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political power and philosophy entirely coincide, while the many natures who at present pursue either one exclusively are forcibly prevented from doing so, cities will have no rest from evils,... nor, I think, will the human race.

  

  Plato
  • Kings
  • Philosophers
  • Human Race

• Agential realism is not a manifesto, it does not take for granted that all is or will or can be made manifest. On the contrary, it is a call, a plea, a provocation, a cry, a passionate yearning for an appreciation of, attention to the tissue of ethicality that runs through the world.

  

  Karen Barad
  • World
  • Running
  • Appreciation

• Anya Hindmarch is indeed a handbag designer; she has the requisite fabulous life, tasteful home, and loving husband. She is also beautiful and self-deprecating, and has five children aged 5 to 20 and a philanthropic bent which spans causes from cancer care to Britain's Conservative Party.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Life
  • Children
  • Home

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

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Essence
  • Human Race
  • Trauma