Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

Maltreatment is a chisel that shapes a brain to contend with strife, but at the cost of deep, enduring wounds. Childhood abuse isn’t something you “get over.”

Bessel van der Kolk

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• There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Church

• The first album I ever bought with my own money was 'Ten.' Every single song reminds me of my childhood.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Money
  • Song
  • Single

• I've been working on the screen right from childhood and am completely in love with my work. And this experience has taught me that ultimately, it's a good script, good work that matters, whether in Bollywood or in the South.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Childhood

• I have had enough of the sexist treatment of Sarah Palin... I call upon the McCain campaign to stop treating Sarah Palin like she is a delicate flower who will wilt at any moment.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Flower
  • Treatment
  • Sexist

• My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • America
  • Dad
  • Childhood

• When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.

  

  O. R. Melling
  • Life
  • Children
  • Childhood

• My older brother, Jake, and I had a bohemian childhood. My parents are deeply unconventional people from the beatnik generation. They weren't married, and I thought that was normal. We called them by their first names.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Parents
  • Brother

• When I saw Bryan Singer's 'Usual Suspects,' I knew how it was going to end because I'd seen 'Scary Movie.' Which is not the preferred order of things, but that's how it is because my childhood was 'Home Alone,' 'Matilda,' 'Batman Returns,' 'Jumanji,' 'Secret Garden,' 'Jack,' 'Mrs. Doubtfire,' 'Titanic.' Only family films from the '90s.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Family
  • Home
  • Movie

• I missed out on my childhood. I had to work hard, but I was immediately given a place in playback.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Work
  • Childhood
  • Work Hard

• Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Life
  • Time
  • Forever

• Teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with ten or eleven years of experience as human beings. It is, I think, a magical time - when so much has been learned, but not yet enough to entirely extinguish the magical reach and freedom of early childhood.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Freedom

• An abused childhood affects the entire life... It affects every facet of the life.

  

  Vanity
  • Life
  • Childhood
  • Affects

• Some people become passionate readers and fans of science fiction during childhood or adolescence. I picked up on SF somewhat later than that; my escape reading of choice during my youth was historical novels, and one of my favorite writers was Mary Renault.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • People
  • Up
  • Science

• For some reason, I always have an allegiance to Ohio. I had a great childhood, and to return to it is very comforting.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Great
  • Childhood
  • Comforting

• From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Father
  • Childhood
  • Talk

• The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Stevie Wonder's 'Songs in the Key of Life' was on constant shuffle throughout my childhood. I remember my dad playing some stellar Max Roach albums as well.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Dad

• It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • People
  • Done
  • Environment

• President Obama is highly concerned with education. He's a champion on early-childhood development strategies. So I like the work he's doing, and I support it, and I realise that he's one of very few political leaders around the world that actually has early-childhood development strategise at the top of his agenda.

  

  Shakira
  • World
  • Work
  • Political

• I'm really laid back but I still like to dress up sometimes.

  

  Allyson Felix
  • Up

• Not knowing what one is looking for is pure agony. Too much analytical thinking, too much logic, too many meanings! Life has no logic, so why does there have to be logic to explain what it means? Also, what is logic? I think I may need to break away from analytical thinking; this is the cause of all my anxieties.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Why

• As the member of a firefighter family myself, supporting the widowed families of rescue workers is an important, personal cause of mine.

  

  Mark Sanchez
  • Important
  • Family
  • Firefighter

• I am constantly trying to improve my playing and hope to get more and more mental strength. I think these are two of the success keys.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • Trying
  • Hope
  • Success

• Maltreatment is a chisel that shapes a brain to contend with strife, but at the cost of deep, enduring wounds. Childhood abuse isn’t something you “get over.”

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Childhood
  • Treatment
  • Wounds