Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.
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Isolation is a big part of songwriting.
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I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.
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I love playing to people and seeing them react.
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Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies.
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Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring about desired results.
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The call of the gospel is for the church to implement the victory of God in the world through suffering love.
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Struggle is nature's way of strengthening it.
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I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than thou learn a prayer without book.
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The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.
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If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.
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Life is hard, but it's even harder when you don't wanna face it.
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Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people. Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life. Your attitude toward yourself is determined largely by the attitudes that you think other people have toward you. When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up. The best way to build a healthy personality involves understanding yourself and your feelings.
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Therapy won’t work as long as people keep being pulled back into the past.
