Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Immobilization is at the root of most traumas. When that occurs the DVC is likely to take over: Your heart slows down, your breathing becomes shallow, and, zombielike, you lose touch with yourself and your surroundings. You dissociate, faint and collapse.
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But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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MMI brothers were very resistant to women such as Lynn Shiflet and others who emerged as leaders within the OAAU, so one of the tensions that occurred was around gender equality and gender leadership inside of Malcolm's X entourage.
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Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.
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You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.
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The Law of Concentration states that whatever you dwell upon, grows. The more you think about something, the more it becomes part of your reality.
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Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That's who I'm dating.
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Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans.
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A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.
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It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.
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I believe that homosexual acts between individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts... I do not believe that the Armed Forces of the United States are well served by saying through our policies that it's OK to be immoral in any way, not just with regards to homosexuality.
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Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting.
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The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.
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It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.
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What one skill, if you developed it, could have the greatest positive impact on your career? This is the key to your future.
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Not thine the sorrow, but ours, sainted soul! Thou hast indeed entered into the promised land, while we are yet on the march. To us remain the rocking of the deep, the storm upon the land, days of duty and nights of watching; but thou are sphered high above all darkness and fear, beyond all sorrow and weariness. Rest, oh, weary heart!
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If I had Sirius FM and fire-breathing in a giant puppy dragon, I'd be golden.
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Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space.
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You made me happy and you made me laugh, and if I could do it all over again, I would not hesitate. Look at our life, at the trips we took, the adventures we had. As your father used to say, we shared the longest ride together, this thing called life, and mine has been filled with joy because of you.
