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

• 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 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

• Belief in non–violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Human

• You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

  

  William Blake
  • Hate
  • Liberty
  • Slavery

• I'm so happy to be to be on the podium today. Before the race things weren't going to plan. In the morning warm-up we were so slow and were in real trouble. My guys made some changes and I have to be real grateful to them as they got it right and that's why I got third. The bike was so much better in the race than it had been all weekend - so much faster.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Up
  • Real
  • Why

• Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

  

  Confucius
  • Believe
  • Stage
  • Spectator

• Wonder. Go on and wonder.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Wonder
  • Go On

• You are a free woman, and then you become a prisoner, and you receive all kinds of orders. Sit here, stand there. That's it. You just, you don't have the possibility of even moving to take your bag without asking for permission.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Free
  • Moving
  • Woman

• It's important for me to treat a girlfriend with respect. My mum would be horrified if I behaved any differently - and I have sisters, and would hate for them to be treated badly by guys.

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
  • Important
  • Guy
  • Hate

• 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