Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

IFS recognizes that the cultivation of mindful self-leadership is the foundation for healing from trauma.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• Save the rainforest for your loved ones

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Rainforest

• This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to--become evil!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Existence
  • Resolve
  • Promote

• For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain.

  

  Adam Lindsay Gordon
  • Good
  • Gifts
  • Resolutions

• Because: Love Never Dies, What is Within is More Important than What is Without, The Best is Not Always the Most Obvious and Once You've Loved Truly, Thor, then You Know the Way.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Important
  • Love
  • Never

• When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

  

  Stephen Carter
  • Defense
  • Execution
  • Fleeing

• As long as you are trying to become, trying to get somewhere, trying to attain something, you are quite literally moving away from the Truth itself.

  

  Adyashanti
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Moving

• Venezuelans have a long history. So we are able to listen to each other, to talk to each other. From here were born the liberators of the region, and they said before and after that process we have a culture of political action. We are not in despair. That's the image broadcast to abroad.

  

  Nicolas Maduro
  • People
  • History
  • Action

• Sport is an entertainment, in one sense. But it's also a business.

  

  Alastair Cook
  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Sport

• We live in a culture eager to make truth a boutique experience as malleable as our personal tastes require.

  

  Charles J. Chaput
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • Culture

• Songs should have an infectious melody and rhythm.

  

  Alan Menken
  • Songs
  • Rhythm
  • Melody

• If you've had a bad experience with an agent, you have to move past it. You are bound to want a player at some stage who is represented by this guy and you will have to try to work around the personality of the agent. You tend to work out what makes them tick, what they respond to. You have to have tactical plans to get a deal over the line.

  

  Alan Pardew
  • Experience
  • Deal
  • Agent

• It was an honor to listen. Now I can carry it with me, right? And somebody heard him.

  

  Barbara O'Neal
  • Honor
  • Listen
  • Heard

• Well, I was named after Mick Jagger's daughter, Jade Jagger. How emasculating is it to be named after a girl! But I think I handled it well, it's not like I ended up wearing makeup and girl's pants.

  

  Jade Puget Blaqk Audio
  • Thinking
  • Girl
  • Daughter

• If you get an infection, you get a fever; the fever is your body dealing with the infection. If you get traumatized, your mind and your brain have a reaction to that trauma. If you're not dreaming about it, something's probably wrong.

  

  Sebastian Junger
  • Mind
  • Dream
  • Brain

• Supposing you eliminated suffering, what a dreadful place the world would be! I would almost rather eliminate happiness. The world would be the most ghastly place because everything that corrects the tendency of this unspeakable little creature, man, to feel over-important and over-pleased with himself would disappear. He's bad enough now, but he would be absolutely intolerable if he never suffered.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • World
  • Important
  • Bad

• IFS recognizes that the cultivation of mindful self-leadership is the foundation for healing from trauma.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Trauma
  • Cultivation
  • Self-leadership