Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
After having been traumatized, people automatically keep repeating certain actions, emotions, and sensations related to the trauma.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
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If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.
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I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.
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When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.
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I picked Harvard because it was in a big city, and a lot of girls' schools were nearby. And I liked President Kennedy, who went to Harvard.
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There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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What we want as an economy is companies and people, you know, working hard to come up with creative ways to be more productive. We don't want companies and people working hard to lobby government for special tax cuts.
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A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as molten gold. But really, sometimes you think you are going to one place, but then you decide that is dumb idea. Then you go somewhere else and it is a worse idea. But then you switch again and you might have a beautiful accident.
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Before 'Giant,' I had only ever worked with Michael Greif, Michael John LaChiusa and Kate Baldwin in readings. It's really exciting to be blessed with the opportunity to work with so many I would put in the 'genius' book.
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The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
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To play at the Mecca of basketball and the Garden every night, it's probably the greatest decision I've ever made to go to New York.
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I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be.
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In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
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When those who have the opportunity to speak to those politicians they must do so and if one doesn't have that opportunity to speak directly, they can still speak indirectly and it can be heard.
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In trouble waters I had to learn how to float
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It means something to the fans; it's territorial bragging rights for them.
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise, for the redress of which, no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say, that, although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still while they continue in force, for the sake of example, they should be religiously observed.
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After having been traumatized, people automatically keep repeating certain actions, emotions, and sensations related to the trauma.
