Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Primordial feelings provide a direct experience of one’s own living body, wordless, unadorned, and connected to nothing but sheer existence. These primordial feelings reflect the current state of the body along varied dimensions, . . . along the scale that ranges from pleasure to pain, and they originate at the level of the brain stem rather than the cerebral cortex. All feelings of emotion are complex musical variations on primordial feelings.
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The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.
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I put up some great numbers.
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I do enjoy playing some sports, even though none of them are organized. I enjoy football most of all.
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I am formless and everywhere. I am in everything. I am in everything and beyond. I fill all space. All that you see, taken together, is Myself. I do not shake or move.
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One of the problems we're facing is, in my view, that there are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies.
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My retail partners, they are my brand ambassadors. They're the ones who are selling the shoes to women.
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You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.
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The spirit of the four hobbits in 'Lord of the Rings,' I suppose I miss that.
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A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe.
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Her respectful tone sounded almost sincere.
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I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.
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After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.
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I'm huge fan of 'Timeflies.'
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We need space to discuss unspoken, uncomfortable dark truths.
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Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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Primordial feelings provide a direct experience of one’s own living body, wordless, unadorned, and connected to nothing but sheer existence. These primordial feelings reflect the current state of the body along varied dimensions, . . . along the scale that ranges from pleasure to pain, and they originate at the level of the brain stem rather than the cerebral cortex. All feelings of emotion are complex musical variations on primordial feelings.
