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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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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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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I wonder how it is with you, Harold? If I don't have a woman for three days, I get terrible headaches.
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That's what I need to work on - my charisma in front of people.
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There's an attitude that I have where I bring the art to the table and the writer brings the writing to the table, but neither of us brings the story to the table. The story is something that only happens with the combination of both of us.
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Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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What did I do to deserve this?
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You and I, travel to the beat of a different drum, can't you tell by the way I run, every time you make eyes at me.
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Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness, revised edition.
