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

• We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Writing
  • Focus
  • 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

• Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. It cannot be manipulated or discouraged because love cannot be manipulated or discouraged.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Joy
  • Care
  • Expectation

• 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

• Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Food
  • Sports
  • Thanksgiving

• I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.

  

  Condola Rashad
  • School
  • High

• 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