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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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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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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Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved.
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Blessed be Thou, my Lord Jesus Christ, who didst foretell Thy death before the time, and in the Last Supper didst wonderfully consecrate Thy precious Body of material bread, and also charitably gave it to Thy Apostles, in memory of Thy most worthy Passion...
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In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?
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What is a date, really, but a job interview that lasts all night? The only difference is there aren't many job interviews where there's a chance you'll end up naked at the end of it. 'Well, Bill, the boss thinks you're the right man for the job; why don't you strip down and meet some of the people you'll be working with?'
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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.
