Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
When you don’t feel real nothing matters, which makes it impossible to protect yourself from danger.
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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People want to be friends with someone who likes to have a good time.
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I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.
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It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.
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No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
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It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.
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When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.
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What we need is action. The problem for the European Union is that we can only go at the pace of the slowest. Therefore, there is a special responsibility on the countries which have failed so far implementing measures to get moving.
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You have only one life, make the most of it
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A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
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Ann Coulter to me is someone who says things that I say all the time, but I say them at three in the morning when I'm drunk as a monkey. She says them at three in the afternoon stone sober in bright daylight.
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Man was so engineered by God that the presence of the Creator within the creature is indispensable to His humanity.
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.
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Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.
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Difficulties arise whenever a committed relationship is succeeding. Love makes you vulnerable. . . . Your defenses relax and the dark side of your personality arises. . .
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The more I learned about the world I thought I knew and all the ones I didn't, the more everything threaded together, leading everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
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I love when people will say, "Oh, my songs are my children." I understand that, but I'm also not afraid to kill my kids. I know when the time has come to throw it in the trash can. With a child you've got to go to therapy and put it in daycare and buy it birthday presents. With a song, you can shove it in a dark closet and tell it you'll be there when you're ready.
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When I stop chasing all the wrong things in life all the good things start to fall into my lap.
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A functionary, when he really is nothing more than a functionary, is really a very dangerous gentleman.
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When you don’t feel real nothing matters, which makes it impossible to protect yourself from danger.
