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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I trust no one, not even myself.
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Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that their suitors have to resort to such trickery to have their way with them? And why don't women quickly succumb to them, without the need for all this skill and ingenuity in conquering them? For there is no need to go to war for a castle that is already captured.
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The style police think that what we look like is more important than anything, and it is their job to seek out and punish those who break their own fashion rules
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Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
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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.
