Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
The experience of fear derives from primitive responses to threat where escape is thwarted in some way. People’s lives will be held hostage to fear until that visceral experience changes… Self-regulation depends on having a friendly relationship with your body. Without it you have to rely on external regulation — from medication, drugs like alcohol, constant reassurance, or compulsive compliance with the wishes of others.
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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.
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We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
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It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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Once your body is in workout-mode, a few days off won't hurt. Muscle memory is magical. If you work out consistently, you can afford to miss a few sessions and your body will gladly pick up where you left off.
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.
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I think people will believe anything about someone they haven't seen for a while.
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Bahrain is very dear to me.
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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
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And several galleries – two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.
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Usually I spend a long while working alone before letting anyone read what I've written.
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Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.
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I've never really seen myself in the role of the victim.
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I think women have the right to consult their own wishes, needs, and capacities and produce only loved, wanted children they can care for - or even no children at all. I think we would all be better off as a society if we respected women's ability to make these decisions for themselves and concentrated on caring well for the born.
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But there are two kinds of escape. There is the escape from something, motivated by fear; and the escape to something, motivated by longing. To confuse the second with the first is to confuse strength with weakness, courage with cowardice, love with fear. “All life,” said the wise witch of Edmonton, “is a wandering to find home,” and nothing will ever finally extinguish this conviction of the human heart.
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The experience of fear derives from primitive responses to threat where escape is thwarted in some way. People’s lives will be held hostage to fear until that visceral experience changes… Self-regulation depends on having a friendly relationship with your body. Without it you have to rely on external regulation — from medication, drugs like alcohol, constant reassurance, or compulsive compliance with the wishes of others.
