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

• I figured I could do "It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World" because I believe it's the truth.

  

  Etta James
  • Truth
  • I Believe
  • Man's World

• The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

  

  Paul Auster

• To people who are reliving a trauma, nothing makes sense; they are trapped in a life-or-death situation, a state of paralyzing fear or blind rage. Mind and body are constantly aroused, as if they are in imminent danger. They startle in response to the slightest noises and are frustrated by small irritations. Their sleep is chronically disturbed, and food often loses its sensual pleasures. This in turn can trigger desperate attempts to shut those feelings down by freezing and dissociation.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Danger
  • Response
  • Trauma

• 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