Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
People who are terrified need to get a sense of where their bodies are in space and of their boundaries. Firm and reassuring touch lets them know where those boundaries are: what’s outside them, where their bodies end. They discover that they don’t constantly have to wonder who and where they are. They discover that their body is solid and that they don’t have to be constantly on guard. Touch lets them know that they are safe.
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President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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The movie business is a big gamble.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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I've always had very catholic tastes.
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Separate inherently is not equal. There's a reason why $45 million was spent against marriage equality. It's because people understand the word does have meaning. And equality comes when we accept the same notions and the same institutions for everyone, regardless of race and gender and regardless of sex orientation.
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More people work at Walmart than anywhere else in the United States, but you wouldn't know that from our literature. I'm trying to get at the reality of this country by portraying the lives of many of my friends who I left behind in Pittsburgh.
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I wasn't a great background singer.
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I imagine there are a lot of people who will never be able to accept me because they feel I've let them down, but I am a different person, and most people have welcomed me back in that spirit.
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I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
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There was a dodgy digital period when things didn't sound that great, but now we are figuring that out. The basics haven't changed, which is talented human beings playing together in a room.
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Concerning his own rages, I am convinced that they are not real, that they are sometimes experiments, but that in the main they are the habits of a pose or attitude he has seen fit to take toward his fellowman.
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Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.
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They threw me out the Ramada Inn, I said: 'It wasn't me, I got a twin! Oh my god it's you, not again!'
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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.
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When in times of turmoil and breakup, do not cut or shave your head, because it will never end well.
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Ask me to define my love for you and I’ll say it’s captured in every beautiful memory of our past, detailed out in vivid visions of our dreams and future plans, but most of all it’s right now, in the moment where everything I’ve ever wanted in my life is standing right in front of me.
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Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.
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My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.
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I was an angry, angry child at times.
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People who are terrified need to get a sense of where their bodies are in space and of their boundaries. Firm and reassuring touch lets them know where those boundaries are: what’s outside them, where their bodies end. They discover that they don’t constantly have to wonder who and where they are. They discover that their body is solid and that they don’t have to be constantly on guard. Touch lets them know that they are safe.
