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

• Every idea must have a visible enfolding.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Idea
  • Must Have
  • Enfolding

• 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
  • Experience
  • Changes
  • Learned

• 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
  • Energy
  • Poetry
  • Dance

• People must talk. But they make you popular; that’s the truth.

  

  Majek Fashek
  • People
  • Truth
  • Popular

• 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