Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

Life goes on, but in two temporal directions at once, the future unable to escape the grip of a memory laden with grief.

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• I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Soul
  • Feeling
  • Always

• The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Children
  • Family
  • Death

• There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Universe
  • Chance

• When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Family
  • Growing
  • Value

• On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Country
  • War
  • Society

• Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Career
  • End
  • Sense

• I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Bike
  • Ride
  • Motorcycle

• The way to resumption is to resume.

  

  Salmon Portland Chase

• I love horse racing, I play golf, and I love travelling.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Play
  • Golf
  • Horse

• We are a motivated team, and there is nothing that can stop us from winning the title. Even if I had lost, my teammates would have made up for it.

  

  Ma Long
  • Up
  • Team
  • Lost

• 'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • World
  • You
  • Vogue

• I like to dress up every now and then.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Up
  • Now
  • Dress

• When I'm not training day in and day out I love to go out and dance, even though it is potentially in my contract that I'm not allowed to do that.

  

  Taylor Phinney
  • Dance
  • Training
  • Contract

• We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time
  • Travel
  • End

• I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Real
  • Truth
  • History

• To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Good
  • Night
  • Judge

• There is the most wonderful thing called Polaris: it's a very high frequency laser treatment that lifts and tightens the skin.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • High
  • Skin
  • Treatment

• Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Acting
  • Strange
  • Very

• I decided this early on at Justice: if the traditional way was the most effective way of doing something, then we'd maintain it. But if it was not functioning at optimum levels, we would be doing the country a disservice by continuing to do things 'like we've always done them.'

  

  John Ashcroft
  • Country
  • Done
  • Justice

• Dying in childbirth is something that's not new; it's been going on for ages, and so it's not something that people focus on; it's not something that gets funded a lot, and it's exactly for that reason that we are losing mothers all the time, and we have kids with no mothers.

  

  Liya Kebede
  • People
  • Time
  • Kids

• We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Life
  • You
  • Relax

• You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

  

  Mae West
  • Live
  • Enough
  • Right

• All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
  • People
  • Writing

• Life goes on, but in two temporal directions at once, the future unable to escape the grip of a memory laden with grief.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Life
  • Memory
  • Escape