Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

To this day, after twenty years and four subsequent revisions, the DSM and the entire system based on it fail victims of child abuse and neglect—just as they ignored the plight of veterans before PTSD was introduced back in 1980.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• The best managers out there at the moment are Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho but they are at other clubs - Real Madrid and Barcelona.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Real
  • Best
  • Moment

• I couldn't kill a fly.

  

  Vera Miles
  • Fly

• I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Trying
  • Story
  • Moment

• I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Value
  • Democracy
  • End

• My first wedding was 15 people at our condo. The second was maybe about a hundred people at this fabulous casino. And you know what? I have almost no pictures of the second one, because I put disposable cameras on the tables, because everyone said, "The best pictures are the most candid! The best pictures are the ones people just take!" So, I put disposable cameras on the tables, and guess what? There were so many kids there that those cameras were stomped on. I had so many pictures of the floor, of people's eyes, of someone's finger.

  

  Viola Davis
  • People
  • Kids
  • Eye

• Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Wisdom
  • Jesus

• Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young; but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Thinking
  • Waiting
  • Individual

• Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Bound
  • Tape
  • Skewered

• Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.

  

  Bono U2
  • Distance
  • Conscience
  • Apologist

• I think more people need to make out.

  

  Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age
  • People
  • Need
  • I Think

• Cocaine eyes won't hide your face.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Eyes
  • Face

• Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Dominion

• I have mugs of hot water every morning because the studio is cold, and also because it makes my throat sound clearer.

  

  Mika Brzezinski
  • Water
  • Morning
  • Cold

• There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.

  

  Pat Cash
  • You
  • Win
  • Determination

• Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical labyrinth that senses the world outside and within, produces love and sorrow, keeps our hearts beating and lungs breathing, composes our thoughts, and constructs our consciousness.

  

  Carl Zimmer
  • World
  • Heart
  • Today

• To this day, after twenty years and four subsequent revisions, the DSM and the entire system based on it fail victims of child abuse and neglect—just as they ignored the plight of veterans before PTSD was introduced back in 1980.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Victims
  • Veterans
  • Revisions