Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

The great challenge is finding ways to reset their physiology, so that their survival mechanisms stop working against them.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.

  

  Youssef Ziedan
  • Nature
  • Dream
  • Religion

• We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
  • Time
  • Small
  • Jesus

• There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Money
  • Matter

• Hollywood's got its own particular environment.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Environment
  • Hollywood
  • Got

• The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

  

  Harold Warner
  • Heart
  • Character
  • True

• Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Up
  • Family
  • Child

• When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Good
  • Speak
  • Shopping

• Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Cricket

• Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.

  

  Rachel Blanchard
  • American
  • Mother
  • British

• I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Age
  • Health
  • Service

• I always watch superhero movies, and I like the action and the fighting and all the different kinds of powers.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Different
  • Action
  • Fighting

• A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.

  

  Carly Craig
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Myself
  • Animal
  • Plant

• I'm not a politician - it's not my cup of tea.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Tea
  • Politician
  • Cup

• Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.'

  

  Barbara Billingsley
  • True
  • Wish
  • Dreams

• The worst thing a man can ever do is kiss me on the first date.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Man
  • Me
  • Kiss

• I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • Practice
  • Two
  • Maybe

• We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Believe
  • Night
  • Romantic

• I've learned... That when you're in love, it shows.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Shows
  • I've Learned
  • I Have Learned

• I'm just trying to eat healthy. That's my biggest thing right now. Staying away from fried foods, eating more greens and grilled food, just keeping my body right.

  

  Calvin Pryor
  • Trying
  • Body
  • Healthy

• Writing was something I always liked, but it wasn't a career until I was laid off from my executive position in my 30s. I started a website because I was bored, unemployed and angry.

  

  Jen Lancaster
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Angry

• Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.

  

  Aubrey de Grey
  • Desire
  • Environment
  • Fire

• Some people, I think, think that because I don't take it as seriously as a lot of the girls do, that I frown upon modeling or think it's stupid. I don't at all. This is my life. I would be nothing without this. But I really don't take it seriously.

  

  Chrissy Teigen
  • People
  • Life
  • Stupid

• The great challenge is finding ways to reset their physiology, so that their survival mechanisms stop working against them.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Challenge
  • Survival
  • Physiology