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

• When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Day
  • Moving
  • Yourself

• 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

• Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Want
  • Imagination
  • Nothing

• 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

• When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Environment

• 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

• Growing up, I watched softball and U.S.A .softball, and that was my goal of being able to represent my country and wear the red, white, and blue out there, and I think it is one of the highest honors to be able to go out there and compete for your country, and it was something so very special, and it was everything I dreamt of and more.

  

  Jennie Finch
  • Up
  • Country
  • Growing

• America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • America
  • Hope
  • Culture

• I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.

  

  Leonard Baskin
  • Life
  • Chance
  • Attitude

• As human beings we have the same experience of destructive and constructive emotions. We also have a human mind capable of developing wisdom. We all have the same Buddha nature.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Nature

• Even as a kid in the Bronx, I wanted an adventurous life.

  

  Kenneth Kamler
  • Life

• 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