Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

The different sensations that entered the brain at the time of the trauma are not properly assembled into a story, a piece of autobiography.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation.

  

  Jack Ma
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• These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.

  

  Hari Kunzru
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• Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
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• But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didn't just want to be opposed to Bill Clinton; that we wanted to tell the country what we were for and to brand ourselves in a more positive manner.

  

  Ed Gillespie
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• You could give the best audition ever and not get the role or not get a callback because you just weren't what they were looking for.

  

  Laura Spencer
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• I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • People
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• I think it's (Israeli pressure for invading Iraq) the worst kept secret in Washington, everybody I talked to in Washington has known and fully knows what their agenda was and what they were trying to do; because I mentioned the Neo-Conservatives who describe themselves as Neo-Conservatives, I was called, Anti-Semitic.

  

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• Postremo nemo aegrotus quidquam somniat tam infandum, quod non aliquis dicat philosophus.

  

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• Be nice to people – all people – even when you don't have to be. Everybody is important.

  

  Ben Carson
  • People
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• Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Happy
  • Desire
  • Ambition

• I love singing and I think I have a really nice voice, but I don't think I have an unbelievable singing voice. I think I have a great character voice.

  

  Katie Finneran
  • Great
  • Character
  • Nice

• I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends.

  

  Maureen Forrester
  • Good
  • Great
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• I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Life
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• We must ensure American workers get the long-overdue raise they deserve.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
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• Even when I was in high school and the Navy, I was the guy who could rip somebody, and they'd laugh at it.

  

  Don Rickles
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• I don't see why you wouldn't cry when you're in an intense environment.

  

  Louise Wilson
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• I am intrigued by women I have conversations with.

  

  Arjun Kapoor
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• The night of trouble is at times so dark that the interwoven gold with which Providence relieves the woof of calamity remains undiscovered.

  

  Anna Leonowens
  • Dark
  • Trouble
  • Providence

• The part of my brain that was responsible for creating the world I lived and moved in and for taking the raw data that came in through my senses and fashioning it into a meaningful universe: that part of my brain was down, and out. And yet despite all of this, I had been alive, and aware, truly aware, in a universe characterized above all by love, consciousness, and reality. There was, for me, simply no arguing this fact. I knew it so completely that I ached.

  

  Eben Alexander
  • World
  • Brain
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• God is decisively drawn to the humble.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • God
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  • Drawn

• I want to explore the world properly, to be able to write about and take pictures of all kinds of different cultures. Just be an explorer or adventurer. I also love extreme sports.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • World
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• I then walk off into the swamp along the path of logs and tree-trunks, picking my way cautiously, now glancing right and left on the foliage, and then surveying carefully the surface of the smooth round log I am walking on.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Path
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• The different sensations that entered the brain at the time of the trauma are not properly assembled into a story, a piece of autobiography.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Brain
  • Trauma
  • Sensations