Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
We know the left hemisphere has come online when children start to understand language and learn how to speak.
Quotes to Explore
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The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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I think you have to be really lucky to pick the sort of roles you want to do.
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Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
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That's what I'd like to do on the President's Council. Make sports and athletics available to every youth in America, not just one day a week like it was for me, but every day.
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To do a romantic scene is the most unromantic thing to do on screen.
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I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
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Miami's not anybody's poor cousin. It's an aspiration to live in this town, not something you have to do to promote yourself like some of the larger cities.
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I'm a student of Eric Church, and I say that a lot... I was drawn to it because of the honesty and because it's got rough edges on it. He doesn't shy away from anything, and that's the way I wanted to be.
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My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect the central bank's goal variables - output, employment, and inflation.
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You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.
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Everything I did in the jails - chain gangs, everything - I haven't changed the policy. I did it, I stand by it, and I'm not going to change.
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I am not naive enough to believe that voting is the only way to bring about transformational change, just as I know that protest alone is not the sole solution to the challenges we face.
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I believe anybody who is not afraid to fail is a winner.
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I respect music, I do. I love it.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.
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We know the left hemisphere has come online when children start to understand language and learn how to speak.
