Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

We deliberately tried to collect just isolated fragments of their experience—particular images, sounds, and feelings—rather than the entire story, because that is how trauma is experienced.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Never
  • Through
  • Nurse

• This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Me
  • Person
  • Hell

• I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Happiness
  • Feel
  • Spring

• One city can look at other cities relative to their city and learn something. It's a matter of sharing the patterns of what exists in one society based on landscape or cultural values versus other cities.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Society
  • City
  • Values

• Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Strong
  • Years
  • Through

• The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.

  

  OMI
  • Song
  • Quality
  • Meaningful

• I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Music
  • Heart

• Brussels' stance against Poland is not just... they should give more respect to the Poles.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Respect
  • More
  • Give

• When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Up
  • Time
  • inspirational

• Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

  

  Taylor Swift
  • World
  • Music
  • Me

• Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Nature
  • Woman
  • Diamond

• The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • May
  • Experience
  • Wisdom

• Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mother

• She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Age
  • Young
  • Hard

• I shall from time to time write a small Clue - so that you may be the more thoroughly confounded.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Time
  • May
  • Small

• Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.

  

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • Society
  • Free

• So I go to the long adventure, lifting My face to the far, mysterious goals, To the last assize, to the final sifting Of gods and stars and souls.

  

  Edwin Markham
  • Long
  • Goals
  • Adventure

• I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • People
  • Reality

• You grow up and recognize that in any educated secular society, there's no excuse for ignorance. You have to recognize in yourself, and challenge yourself, that if you see racism or homophobia or misogyny in a secular society, as a member of that society, you should challenge it. You owe it to the betterment of society.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Up
  • Society
  • Challenge

• I would say that Emma Stone and Emma Watson are two very talented young actresses who are very intelligent and have a great sense of humor and have learned to balance what they love with their acting career, and I think that's really a great thing.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Career
  • Intelligent
  • Humor

• If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.

  

  Martha Reeves
  • People
  • Long

• When all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your most cherished hypothesis is wrong.

  

  Alice Dreger
  • Work
  • Done
  • Science

• Keep your head on your shoulders.

  

  Jessica Parker Kennedy

• We deliberately tried to collect just isolated fragments of their experience—particular images, sounds, and feelings—rather than the entire story, because that is how trauma is experienced.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Experience
  • Trauma
  • Fragments