Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

Most human beings simply cannot tolerate being disengaged from others for any length of time. People who cannot connect through work, friendships, or family usually find other ways of bonding, as through illnesses, lawsuits, or family feuds.

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• I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • You
  • Funny
  • Feel

• I picked Harvard because it was in a big city, and a lot of girls' schools were nearby. And I liked President Kennedy, who went to Harvard.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • City
  • President
  • Big City

• What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Up
  • Rest
  • Look

• I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.

  

  Imelda May
  • Kids
  • Singing
  • Annoying

• I feel like, in some level, in our biggest moments of success we were always the underdog.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Success
  • Moments
  • Underdog

• Even the dark places are places. You're still somewhere.

  

  K. Flay
  • You
  • Dark
  • Places

• And people are intrigued if I really am as grumpy in real life. People feel a bit let down if I'm laughing or smiling.

  

  Jack Dee
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Home
  • Faith
  • Joy

• I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Sister

• In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out.

  

  Paul von Hindenburg
  • Army

• My default answer to most of the questions my kids ask me is 'no.' I just start with 'no.' I let them fight for it a little bit.

  

  Mark Consuelos
  • Kids

• If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • People
  • Smile

• For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.

  

  Carol Bellamy
  • Children
  • School
  • Age

• It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down.

  

  James Lipton
  • Up

• I think you have to plan ahead. When I go to the market on a Saturday, and I'm buying for family and friends, I'm thinking about what I'm going to eat on the weekend but also about what I'm going to make for the following week.

  

  Alice Waters
  • Thinking
  • Family
  • Friends

• As writers, you spend so long trying to build your cred as a writer, and then everything comes together at the same time: your artist career happens when your songwriter career is, too.

  

  Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

  

  Maurice Chevalier
  • World
  • Age
  • Sad

• You're born single, you die single, but why not being in a relationship is some special 'single' status, I don't understand. Life is less stress being single, I have to admit.

  

  Bipasha Basu
  • Life
  • Why
  • Relationship

• Prepare for joy - speak your truth, care for yourself, expand your knowledge, nurture your friendships, let people love you, take on new adventures, go where your heart leads you.

  

  Charlotte Kasl
  • People
  • Heart
  • Truth

• He was a skater boy. She said: 'see you later, boy'. He wasn't good enough for her. Now, he's a superstar. Slamming on his guitar, to show pretty face what he's worth.

  

  Avril Lavigne
  • Guitar
  • Superstar
  • Skater

• It’s a pushy bastard. It goes by Peregrine now.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Goes
  • Bastard
  • Peregrine

• I'm kind of like Britney Spears having a headache. Everybody wants to know about it.

  

  Joe Wurzelbacher

• Most human beings simply cannot tolerate being disengaged from others for any length of time. People who cannot connect through work, friendships, or family usually find other ways of bonding, as through illnesses, lawsuits, or family feuds.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Human Beings
  • Friendships
  • Connect