Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
We are a hopeful species. Working with trauma is as much about remembering how we survived as it is about what is broken.
Quotes to Explore
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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It takes less land to grow a pound of broccoli than it does a pound of beef. Less land to grow a pound of grain than a pound of beef. Less water, less energy.
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I have no idea what that is, but yawn, anyway, just on principle. Eat up. Pancakes is brain food. Apparently not grammar food. Wow.You college girls are mean.
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And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me. And i fall back into it.
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We're always looking for something.
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Well, I won't give up on us, Even if the skies get rough I'm giving you all my love, I'm still looking up
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There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.
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The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.
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The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.
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Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.
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I and me are always too deeply in conversation.
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He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.
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Every human being makes mistakes.
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And so they are ever returning to us, the dead. At times they come back from the ice more than seven decades later and are found at the edge of the moraine, a few polished bones and a pair of hobnailed boots.
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We may smile and the dog may wag the tail, but in essence, we have a set program and those programs are similar across individuals in the species.
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For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men's hearts are not often as bad as their acts, and very seldom as bad as their words.
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We are a hopeful species. Working with trauma is as much about remembering how we survived as it is about what is broken.
