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.

Bessel van der Kolk

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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.

  

  Walter F. Ulmer
  • Important
  • Job
  • Purpose

• 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.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Energy
  • Water
  • Grow

• 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.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Food
  • College

• 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.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Fall
  • Pain
  • Never

• We're always looking for something.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Always
  • Something

• 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

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Sky

• There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Art
  • Genuine

• The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

  

  Clarence Day
  • Wise
  • Vacation
  • Ant

• 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.

  

  Sophocles
  • Teach
  • Instinct
  • Condition

• 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.

  

  Epictetus
  • Desire
  • Opinion
  • Actions

• I and me are always too deeply in conversation.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Always
  • Conversation
  • Deeply

• He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Nature
  • Peace
  • Thought

• Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Criticism
  • Healthy
  • Public Life

• Some fearful sights there be that creep By night - I mean that harass sleep; But tenfold more alarming seem these when They brave the day, to breathe the air like men.

  

  William Batchelder Greene
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • Breathe

• A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Race
  • Species
  • Variety

• The women and men who have suffered military sexual trauma deserve our respect, compassion and commitment to provide them with ready access to counseling and treatment. I am releasing the report, which I have obtained through other sources, to shine a light on a serious problem that the White House wants to hide in the shadows.

  

  Lane Evans
  • Men
  • Women
  • Military

• They are a doomed race. Wars, smallpox, gross immorality, a change from old ways to new ways their fate is the common fate of the American, whether he sails the sea in the North, gallops over the plain in the West, or sleeps in his hammock in the forests of Brazil.

  

  George Amos Dorsey
  • Common
  • Forests
  • Immorality

• We are a hopeful species. Working with trauma is as much about remembering how we survived as it is about what is broken.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Species
  • Trauma
  • Remembering