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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What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity.
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We tend to use knowledge as therapy.
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Well television is grueling. The hours are grueling, it's hard work, and there's a lot of pressure to get it done without a lot of rehearsal time.
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Therapy won’t work as long as people keep being pulled back into the past.
