Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

Agency starts with what scientists call interoception, our awareness of our subtle sensory, body-based feelings: the greater that awareness, the greater our potential to control our lives.

Bessel van der Kolk

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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- Life
- Time
- Opportunities
Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner.

Hans Bender
- You
- Fashion
- Create
The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.

Larry the Cable Guy
- Up
- Done
- Kids
These archetypal older women in movies can sometimes make my skin crawl. It's about the one dimension; it's about the lack of any texture.

Patricia Clarkson
- Women
- Sometimes
- Movies
The majority of actor kids are really competitive. But Gabby Sidibe on 'The Big C' has been a big help to me. Her career went from zero to a hundred in about one second, so she's warned me what to expect.

Gabriel Basso
- Help
- Career
- Expect
We repress the things we're scared of, but if we just look at and embrace the things we're scared of, it's a much fuller, richer life that's also not as scary.

Gary Ross
- Life
- Look
- Scary