Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

If an organism is stuck in survival mode, its energies are focused on fighting off unseen enemies, which leaves no room for nurture, care, and love. For us humans, it means that as long as the mind is defending itself against invisible assaults, our closest bonds are threatened, along with our ability to imagine, plan, play, learn, and pay attention to other people’s needs.

Bessel van der Kolk

• Care
• Humans
• Survival
• Energies
• Organism

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• In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • America
  • Health
  • Care

• I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Live
  • Democracy
  • Care

• I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if you've had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport's movement, then I think that's pretty darn good.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Good
  • Women
  • Game

• I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Me

• My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Mom
  • Trust
  • Care

• For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • God
  • Believe
  • Faith

• When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Money
  • Education
  • Care

• George Bush doesn't care about black people.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Black
  • Care

• I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well – spent.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Day
  • Humans
  • Interested

• In reference to the Army and Navy, lately employed with so much distinction on active service, care shall be taken to insure the highest condition of efficiency; and in furtherance of that object, the Military and Naval Schools, sustained by the liberality of Congress, shall receive the special attention of the Executive.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Attention
  • Taken
  • Care

• The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Responsibility
  • Care
  • Seeing

• Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • People
  • Love
  • Think

• Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Thinking
  • Faith
  • Care

• It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Change
  • Survival
  • Necessary

• I attract a crowd, not because I'm an extrovert or I'm over the top or I'm oozing with charisma. It's because I care.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Care
  • Top
  • Extrovert

• I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Government
  • Care

• I'm interested in how we react when we're heavily pressed. When we're vulnerable and our survival is in question, how do we behave?

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Question
  • Survival
  • How

• A healthy mind and body are essential. No excesses. Proper food. The body is like a Rolls-Royce. With care, it could last 200 years. It's a dynamo; the more you use it, the more you recharge it.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Mind
  • Food
  • Care

• I believe your home tells a story about who you are and who you aspire to be. We represent ourselves through the things we own. I don't believe in trends. I believe in collecting things that you connect with. We should surround ourselves with things we care about, that have meaning.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Believe
  • Home
  • Care

• I don't know if I'd do well in a structured, corporate environment. I'm very open. I share everything. I don't care. I don't have anything to hide. I'm very transparent that way.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Know
  • Environment
  • Care

• If it's just fame for the sake of being famous, no one even cares about you - and you don't even care about yourself because you're like, "This is so ridiculous."

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Care
  • Fame
  • Ridiculous

• Believe in yourself and don't care about haters.

  

  Perrie Edwards Little Mix
  • Believe
  • Care
  • Haters

• If an organism is stuck in survival mode, its energies are focused on fighting off unseen enemies, which leaves no room for nurture, care, and love. For us humans, it means that as long as the mind is defending itself against invisible assaults, our closest bonds are threatened, along with our ability to imagine, plan, play, learn, and pay attention to other people’s needs.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Care
  • Humans
  • Survival