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

• We have the responsibility to ensure that our first impulse in foreign affairs is one of bipartisanship.

  

  Richard Lugar
  • Responsibility
  • Foreign
  • Bipartisanship

• Frst of all that I would crave as the richest of heaven's blessings would be wisdom from my Heavenly Father bestowed daily.

  

  Emma Hale
  • Wisdom
  • Blessings
  • Crave

• MAN IS FUNDAMENTALLY AN ANIMAL. Animals, as distinct from man, are not machine-like, not sadistic; their societies, within the same species, are incomparably more peaceful than those of man. The basic question, then is: What has made the animal, man, degenerate into a machine?

  

  Wilhelm Reich
  • Animal
  • Peaceful
  • Species

• What's amazing about this show Westworld, and what it gives us permission to do, is to be kind of superhuman. Because at the end of the day, Dolores she's not a male and she's not a female. She's evolved past that. She's a very highly advanced being, and so I think it's really going to knock down a lot of stereotypes and a lot of gender roles and be a neutral party.

  

  Evan Rachel Wood
  • Roles
  • Female
  • Gender

• 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