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
Quotes to Explore
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There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.
Auguste Renoir
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The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.
Clarence Day
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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.
Sophocles
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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.
Epictetus
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I and me are always too deeply in conversation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Albert Einstein
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Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Every idea must have a visible enfolding.
Victor Hugo
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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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This artistic uprising we had the other night in Washington Square park: there was poetry, there was dance, there was song, there was spoken word; and people left feeling so inspired and so energised. We have to get ourselves out of this syndrome of trauma and being re-traumatised. Art releases this energy. It exposes us to wonder again, and magic again, and ambiguity - all the things we need to really keep going and fighting and resisting in these times.
Eve Ensler
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People must talk. But they make you popular; that’s the truth.
Majek Fashek
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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.
Bessel van der Kolk