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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It's kind of hard to put your finger on it. There are a lot of things that you could sit here and make excuses about or something.
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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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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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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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I have had heart surgery three times, so I know what it was like to have pins and needles stuck in you.
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Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave. It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for the moment. It means we stop trying to do the impossible-controlling that which we cannot-and instead, focus on what is possible-which usually means taking care of ourselves. And we do this in gentleness, kindness, and love, as much as possible.
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The European Commission says that people who are working the country can play in the national team. Perhaps Didier Drogba can play for England after five years. We have to protect against that.
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My heart was beating out of my chest.
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When you don’t feel real nothing matters, which makes it impossible to protect yourself from danger.
