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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For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
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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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Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.
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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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Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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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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In Latin America, people want you to write beautiful melodies and words. But there are also songs that do well because they show the reality of life.
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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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If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.
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It is expensive to live in hotels, even cheap ones - more expensive than renting.
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We are the offspring of approval-seekers. We want approval so badly that we vacillate between conforming to get it and standing out (being outstanding) to get it.
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In general, I've been treated well by reviews, and there are times when I haven't. The truth is that I've come to feel like I'm better off without reading them.
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If Sun were to hand the management of Java over to a committee of monkeys, would it be more successful?
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The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum. The universe is hostile.
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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.
