Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. . . . Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

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• Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Inspiration
  • Identity
  • Piece

• I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.

  

  Yuna
  • Think
  • Always
  • Beginning

• I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Life
  • Family
  • Guy

• Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Important
  • Trees
  • Ecosystem

• A man should never neglect his family for business.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Family
  • Business
  • Man

• Life is short, and it is here to be lived.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Short
  • Here

• People say, 'He doesn't want to be a spokesperson for the gay community.' I do, of course I do, but I want to be a spokesperson for everyone. Ya know, straight people, gay people, bisexual. I don't want it to be limited.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Want
  • Community

• I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Poetry

• I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Fear
  • Unknown

• I'm not a big planner; I decide by intuition.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • Intuition
  • Big
  • Decide

• Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Different
  • Know
  • Speak

• When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Money
  • Director
  • Envy

• The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Society

• New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every time I go there I immediately make travel plans.

  

  Kiran Desai
  • Time
  • City
  • Travel

• I have really crooked teeth - they give me character!

  

  Emma Roberts
  • Character

• I think escapism is very important, certainly in my life. I love nothing more than escaping into the world of a film or a novel. To be involved in creating that for other people is a privilege.

  

  Ben Barnes
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I could throw pretty hard. I might strike out 16 guys, but I might walk 10. I mean, I was wild.

  

  Bruce Sutter
  • Pretty

• I want to be a part of a movie that changes people's conceptual framework, and suddenly you see things in a different way.

  

  Ella Purnell
  • People
  • Different
  • Movie

• Moviemaking is a dirty, tiring affair. The joy comes from the possibility to be free on set and really let loose.

  

  Luca Guadagnino
  • Free
  • Joy
  • Dirty

• Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.

  

  Andrew Weil
  • Joy

• I was the youngest of the six kids, and to make my older siblings laugh, that was very important. I did a great impression of our dad that made them all laugh, so that gave me a lot of power within the family.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Dad

• This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. . . . Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Joy
  • Human
  • Laughing