Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

Habitual drug use in teens is that they cannot stand the physical sensations that signal fear, rage, and helplessness.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Night
  • Homeless
  • Minimum Wage

• It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Tough

• To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Man

• People are so familiar with the show that I think they're perfectly happy to let it go by without asking any questions. There's a passivity to how we experience 'The Sound of Music.'

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • People
  • Music
  • Experience

• At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father’s business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Business
  • Mother
  • Father

• Are you the strongest of all men, so strong that you can be merciful to me, a weak woman? Here is the undoing of your strength: I am not a weak woman. I am not a little queen. And your mercy will be your undoing.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Men
  • Strong
  • Mercy

• In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • High
  • Pretty

• When you think about your relationship with Christ, it really just affects every aspect of your life. I think a lot of people try to segment off, like, 'This is church, so this is God, this is my daily life, this is my job,' but I think true faith is when it manifests itself in every single aspect of your life.

  

  Jeremy Lin
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.

  

  Leslie Fiedler
  • People
  • Funny

• Music is a physical expression that has a physical impact upon the listener. Sound travels in waves through the air. This is not abstract. This is scientific fact. And it makes physical contact with the eardrum... and with the heart... and with the rest of the body.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Rest

• After years of mass immigration, falling wages, and surging joblessness, isn't it time we focused on the needs of the people living here today? Isn't it time we got our own people back to work?

  

  Jeff Sessions
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith.

  

  Maria Monk
  • Great
  • Different
  • Book

• If I have a spare second, I usually catch up on the many magazines I'm behind on or watch the latest movies on demand that I usually missed at the theater. I love magazines. My top three: Graydon Carter's 'Vanity Fair', Adam Moss' 'New York magazine' and David Remnick's 'New Yorker.'

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • Up

• Pretty mundane closet, but a lot of ties. And I tend not to throw anything out, so I have a lot of clothes from all times from my life. I can be a little sentimental with things like that.

  

  Jeff Koons
  • Life
  • Pretty

• For me, family has always been one of the key reasons to make music.

  

  Little Louie Vega
  • Music
  • Family

• The euro has become a means by which superior German productivity is able to gain an absolutely unbeatable advantage over the whole eurozone territory.

  

  Boris Johnson
  • German
  • Productivity

• Italians are very conscious of what they eat, how they eat, and its digestion.

  

  Lidia Bastianich

• Remember that time I punched you in front of my father’s grave?” I ask in a sentimental voice.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Remember
  • Voice
  • Grave

• It was too much Tequila, or not quite enough.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Enough
  • Drug
  • Alcohol

• The work is different in the sense that I haven't had to travel round the world raising money, or work from the genesis of the project. But the collaboration feels clear always, it's sort of my drug, I'm in it for the conversation. The conversation's the most important part of it.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • World
  • Different
  • Important

• I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness... When I speak of drug addiction I do not refer to keif, marijuana or any preparation of hashish, mescaline, Banisteriopsis caapi, LSD6, Sacred Mushrooms or any other drugs of the hallucinogen group... There is no evidence that the use of any hallucinogen results in physical dependence.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Age
  • Drug
  • Preparation

• Habitual drug use in teens is that they cannot stand the physical sensations that signal fear, rage, and helplessness.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Drug
  • Sensations
  • Helplessness