Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

We have learned that trauma is not just an event that took place sometime in the past; it is also the imprint left by that experience on mind, brain, and body. This imprint has ongoing consequences for how the human organism manages to survive in the present. Trauma results in a fundamental reorganization of the way mind and brain manage perceptions. It changes not only how we think and what we think about, but also our very capacity to think.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Risk
  • Jump
  • Greatest

• See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Country
  • Justice
  • See

• Time is the devourer of all things.

  

  Ovid
  • Time
  • Things
  • All Things

• The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Power
  • Political
  • Happiness

• Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.

  

  Hal Lindsey
  • World
  • Stop
  • See

• We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Live
  • New
  • Four

• I guess actors are very sensitive people. We're porous.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • People
  • Very
  • Sensitive

• I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • God
  • Religion
  • Greek

• Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Getting
  • Getting Older

• I go out and speak to women's groups all the time, and I say, 'Guys, you gotta laugh and find the humor in things. You gotta pass it on.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Time
  • Women
  • Humor

• It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Up
  • Why
  • House

• I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Music
  • Heart

• When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Strong
  • Know
  • Habit

• When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded rapidly and inefficiently. So I arbitrarily picked a number, 10 percent, and I said over the next 12 months, we are going to reduce our reliance on contractors by 10 percent.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Science
  • Percent
  • Reliance

• Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Important
  • Money
  • Happy

• I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Movies

• If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair.' But it doesn't help. The only way to truly find meaning and fulfillment is to look at the disaster, the pain, the difficulty, and know with complete certainty that good can come from this.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Good
  • Help
  • Pain

• There is a standard joke in the family. Probably we should go into selling second-hand shoes.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Family
  • Hand
  • Shoes

• I never realized how much I cherished having creative freedom.

  

  James Wan
  • Freedom

• I didn't like doing team presentations at races, being introduced as the winner of the Tour. I felt quite embarrassed by it.

  

  Bradley Wiggins
  • Team

• Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Change
  • Enemies
  • Clergy

• I had a couple CDs. But I never had that first concert experience, that first record thing.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Experience
  • Never
  • Couple

• Could come to terms with aspects of my past without those terms being set by the Foundation’s unexamined Freudian tradition, which pathologized women’s experience when it didn’t fit the great man’s theory.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Experience
  • Tradition
  • Aspects

• We have learned that trauma is not just an event that took place sometime in the past; it is also the imprint left by that experience on mind, brain, and body. This imprint has ongoing consequences for how the human organism manages to survive in the present. Trauma results in a fundamental reorganization of the way mind and brain manage perceptions. It changes not only how we think and what we think about, but also our very capacity to think.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Experience
  • Changes
  • Learned