Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness, revised edition.
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Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
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That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
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I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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I can never find the right bras.
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
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Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
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You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.
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There's more single-family homes rented in the United States then there are apartments.
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I'm going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and just share with people who I am and what I've learned in my second chance of life and pass it on to people in their first chance of life.
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There are apparently three factors that lead to longevity: heredity, habits, and what your wife will let you get away with.
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Believe in the holy contour of life
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I cannot starve myself. I'm a foodie! I make fabulous pastas, Indian food, parathas and club sandwiches!
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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The Prophet Muhammad himself sought to erase any distinctions between the message he taught and that taught by Jesus, who he called God's 'spirit and word.'
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Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness, revised edition.
