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 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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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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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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The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.
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Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920.
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Young girls need to see women who are strong and vulnerable and complex onscreen.
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Individuals and communities need to clearly tell government if they want parity for First Australians. Only this will overcome the vested interests of governments and administrators and see these practical, inexpensive solutions for what they are: a way to finally achieve results, with the strength of will from each of us.
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The first is the law, the last prerogative.
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I wish I could play the whole game and come back tomorrow.
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I've worked with a lot of wooden actors in my day, but Pinocchio is the best.
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When I run barefoot, I put my shoes on my hands. Running around with shoe-hands looks a little weird.
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The person senses what it feels like to be free from inhibitions. At the same time he feels connected and integrated – with his body and, through his body, with his environment. He has a sense of well-being and inner peace. He gains the knowledge that the life of the body resides in its involuntary aspect. […] Unfortunately these beautiful feelings do not always hold up under the stress of daily living in our modern culture. The pace, the pressure and the philosophy of our times are antithetical to life.
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Wit and valor are qualities that are more easily ascertained than virtue, or the love of wisdom.
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This suggested that for many traumatized people, reexposure to stress might provide a similar relief from anxiety.
