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'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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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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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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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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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
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Memory, then, is a necessary part of the logical faculty. … The proposition A = A must have a psychological relation to time, otherwise it would be A
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No matter how small his portion, let him rejoice in it.
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On Dick Cheney's Halliburton severance package He's a guy who's in charge of determining our energy policy, and he's doing it with $31 million of oil company money in his pocket. Is anybody fucking home?
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The Japanese say, If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.
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I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity from within. It's bestowed from on high, from God.
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What was the right level of prosperity, the level that banished dire need but did not satiate, the level that did not threaten the artist in the individual? And how did one stop when one arrived at it?
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There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.
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When the attention started to be about my figure, I was surprised, because it wasn't something I was focused on.
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Great music - say jazz - has that inventive, improvisational quality that tells us something about life.
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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.
