Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Trauma causes people to remain stuck in interpreting the present in light of an unchanging past. The scene you re-create in a structure may or may not be precisely what happened, but it represents the structure of your inner world: your internal map and the hidden rules that you have been living by.
Bessel van der Kolk
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visiting Jackson Pollock’s studio: You do not work from nature. This is no good, you will repeat yourself. You work by heart, not from nature. Pollock reacted: 'I am nature
Hans Hofmann
When you do something young enough and you train for it, it just becomes a part of you.
Randy Pausch
Whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower...
Barack Obama
Sed ego adolescentulus initio sicuti plerique studio ad rem publicam latus sum, ibique mihi multa adversa fuere. Nam pro pudore, pro abstinentia, pro virtute, audacia, largitio, avaritia vigebant.
Sallust
If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x × y is less than y.
H. L. Mencken
They lived under a just and moderate government, and they admitted that one bond of their fidelity was that their rulers were the better men.
Livy
A great Empire, like a great Cake, is most easily diminished at the Edges.
Benjamin Franklin
Buddha didn’t teach that life hurts because of pain; it hurts because the cause of suffering hasn’t been examined.
Deepak Chopra
I do not know if Alice in Wonderland was an original story-I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it-but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen story-books have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'-is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.
Lewis Carroll
After listening to the radio, I learned what the North Korean government had been telling us about the war was not true. This myth allowed the North to hold the South responsible for the war.
Kang Chol-hwan
Remember how Democrats were complaining that Republicans were trying to overturn Obamacare, it was somehow unpatriotic, because it was an attack on the law of the land. This law of the land doesn’t even exist. It exists in Obama’s head. It’s whatever he thinks. He wakes up in the morning and decides what the law is gonna be.
Charles Krauthammer
Trauma causes people to remain stuck in interpreting the present in light of an unchanging past. The scene you re-create in a structure may or may not be precisely what happened, but it represents the structure of your inner world: your internal map and the hidden rules that you have been living by.
Bessel van der Kolk
