Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
This suggested that for many traumatized people, reexposure to stress might provide a similar relief from anxiety.
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I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls' office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.
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I don't think that coming from a privileged background makes you this monster who doesn't feel things.
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Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.
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They wouldn't let me into Germany from 1998-2000 because I bumped into the chancellor's daughter on my skateboard.
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We just have to remember that we're all in this together and that we all want our state, and our country, to succeed.
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The joy of life is living it, or so it seems to me;In finding shackles on your wrists, then struggling till you're free;In seeing wrongs and righting them, in dreaming splendid dreams,Then toiling till the vision is as real as moving streams.The happiest mortal on the earth is he who ends his dayBy leaving better than he found to bloom along the way.
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I do go through periods of obsession with certain records.
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I write my novels in English first; then they are translated into Turkish by professional translators. Then I take their translation and rewrite. So basically, I write the same novel twice.
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I don't think I auditioned for 'Ghostbusters II'.
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The world has changed and it's going to keep changing, but God never changes; so we are safe when we cling to Him.
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I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales.
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That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.
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Climate change is real.
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I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.
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I've always been a very harsh judge of talent because if you don't play the game on both ends of the court, and if you don't play hard every night, I'm probably not going to be in love with you as a player. I'm going to respect you because you're good, but these players are unique.
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They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?
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Yoga has been the best tool for managing stress and life's challenges. Everything from my studies to my father's death was eased by my practice of it.
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Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.
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This suggested that for many traumatized people, reexposure to stress might provide a similar relief from anxiety.
