Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

It stopped the dissociation. I can use my feelings; I’m not running away from them. I’m not held hostage by them. I can’t turn them off and on, but I can put them away.

Bessel van der Kolk

• Runaway
• Hostage
• DIssociates

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• I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character'; possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.

  

  Anita Loos
  • Character
  • Cities
  • Defense

• It wasn't too pretty in Florida, but it was spring training and you're just trying to work on your stuff. You come to this part of the season and now you have to execute. It's what I did. I just threw it where it needed to be.

  

  Chris Smith
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• What's a hero, if not for its journey. I think you're going to recontextualize what saving the world means, and I think that you will be satisfied with the stakes. That's all I can say about that.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • Journey
  • Hero
  • Satisfied

• My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Science
  • Purpose
  • Experiments

• If you say to people that there's less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it's the truth, even though we have awful things happening in Syria or Sudan.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Truth
  • Violence

• A policeman stopped me and said: Would you please blow into this bag, sir? I said: What for, officer? He said: My chips are too hot.

  

  Tommy Cooper
  • Funny
  • Humor
  • Blow

• Singing was always quite a private thing... I don't think my own mum even heard me sing until after I signed with Sony just out of high school!

  

  Brooke Fraser Hillsong Worship
  • Sing
  • High School
  • Sony

• I now realize that a broken back, failed surgery, and Stage IV cancer are three of the greatest things that ever happened to me. Three of the most positive, transformative things that ever happened to me. They helped me become a vastly better person than I ever was, and I am eternally grateful for that.

  

  Brad Willis
  • Cancer
  • Surgery
  • Transformative

• I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license.

  

  Michael Franks
  • Write
  • Liberal
  • Poetic

• We ain't never duckin' beef, bitch, we not vegan My lil' niggas 'bout that action, they be Glock squeezin' Red beams on his head, now his top leakin' I heard that boy got man down and now the opps grievin'

  

  Polo G
  • Action
  • Never
  • Vegan

• Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame.

  

  Thurston Moore Sonic Youth
  • Parents
  • Relationship
  • Grow Up

• I suppose in some ways that's why my collaborations worked out, because I would go in the studio with such enthusiasm and it would never be a chore for me. I was never itching for the process to be done so we could get out live. It's a different matter for me now. Now I've noticed that I actually have one eye or one ear on how I'm going to do it on stage. And maybe that's because I'm the frontman in the group; I do believe that any good frontman should be impatient in the studio to get out.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Stage
  • Enthusiasm
  • Suppose

• ...And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Heart
  • Cancer
  • Nostalgia

• It stopped the dissociation. I can use my feelings; I’m not running away from them. I’m not held hostage by them. I can’t turn them off and on, but I can put them away.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Runaway
  • Hostage
  • DIssociates