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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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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The Populist Caucus aims to bring people together around middle class issues, so we can tolerate a little difference of opinion.
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My grandmother was not a great storyteller.
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It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
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An important meeting point for me was realizing the similarity between a DJ set and a Grateful Dead set: I grew up listening to how the Dead would take a song and just jam on it, and then transition into another song.
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I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York.
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I'm a way bigger worrier than I ever was before I had kids. And, you know, the stress and anxiety that can go along with motherhood, I have had to battle that.
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The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.
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Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness, revised edition.
