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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It's always coldest before the warm.
Spider Robinson
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Nothing outside the will can hinder or harm the will; it can only harm itself. If then we accept this, and, when things go amiss, are inclined to blame ourselves, remembering that judgment alone can disturb our peace and constancy, I swear to you by all the gods that we have made progress.
Epictetus
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When words fail, haunting images capture the experience and return as nightmares and flashbacks. In contrast to the deactivation of Broca’s area, another region, Brodmann’s area 19, lit up in our participants. This is a region in the visual cortex that registers images when they first enter the brain. We were surprised to see brain activation in this area so long after the original experience of the trauma. Under ordinary conditions raw images registered in area 19 are rapidly diffused to other brain areas that interpret the meaning of what has been seen. Once again, we were witnessing a brain region rekindled as if the trauma were actually occurring.
Bessel van der Kolk
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Ratbert (as lab rat, to scientist): Doc, we have to talk. Every day you feed me over a hundred pounds of macaroni and cheese. At first I thought you were just being a good host. But lately I've been thinking it could be something far more sinister.
Scott Adams
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There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge.
Ally Carter
