Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Many patients who come to my office are unable to make eye contact. I immediately know how distressed they are by their difficulty meeting my gaze. It always turns out that they feel disgusting and that they can’t stand having me see how despicable they are.Bessel van der Kolk
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I'm not surprised by hardly anything anymore.
Laura Schlessinger -
Soldiers, I intend to stay here, not only as long as a man remains, but as long as a piece of a man is left.
Zachary Taylor -
One important thing to know is you're still the same person during it. I'm more eager than ever to do what I did. I want to do everything.
Kylie Minogue -
A study last year showed that the page you turn to first in the newspaper can be a predictor of how long you will live. No surprise, turning first to the Comics Pages prolongs your life.
Elayne Boosler -
Inner disarmament, external disarmament; these must go together, you see. Peace is not just mere absence of violence - genuine peace must start in each individual heart.
Dalai Lama -
Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.
H. Richard Niebuhr
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Tiger had the advantage of high school, college, and a father who knew golf. I was self-taught. Blacks really won't play golf in great numbers until some of these basketball and football stars buy some golf courses where blacks can play.
Charlie Parker -
To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.
Heraclitus -
In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I have no idea what I am talking about I'm trapped in this body and can't get out
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace -
My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.
Wyclef Jean Fugees -
Information work is thinking work.
Bill Gates
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All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the theater. It is a representation of the passions so natural and so delicate that it excites them and gives birth to them in our hearts, and, above all, to that of love.
Blaise Pascal -
By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever.
Lao Tzu -
Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't, he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that. Dandyism is much more austere-much more Calvinistic, more neurotic - it oscillates between narcissism and neurosis.
Sebastian Horsley -
Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought.
Arthur Desmond -
Many patients who come to my office are unable to make eye contact. I immediately know how distressed they are by their difficulty meeting my gaze. It always turns out that they feel disgusting and that they can’t stand having me see how despicable they are.
Bessel van der Kolk