Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

While we all want to move beyond trauma, the part of our brain that is devoted to ensuring our survival (deep below our rational brain) is not very good at denial. Long after a traumatic experience is over, it may be reactivated at the slightest hint of danger and mobilize disturbed brain circuits and secrete massive amounts of stress hormones.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May
  • Know
  • Same

• See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Country
  • Justice
  • See

• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Family
  • Society
  • Rest

• It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Church
  • Like
  • Going

• Bring out the eyes.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Eyes
  • Bring
  • Out

• The music and the clothing are just as important. That's what makes you hiphop. You show people that you're hiphop by what you wear.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.

  

  T. S. Eliot

• I shall from time to time write a small Clue - so that you may be the more thoroughly confounded.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Time
  • May
  • Small

• It is not characteristic of American executives to read books, except books on 'management' and mysteries. ... Those who who do venture into this arena ... are looked upon by their colleagues with mingled awe and incredulity.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • American
  • Management

• He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• If one person in a thousand criticized me while all the others cheered, I didn't hear the cheers.

  

  Dorothy Dandridge
  • Person
  • Criticized
  • Cheered

• The thing is, it was never a decision for me to never return to acting.

  

  Dylan Sprouse
  • Decision

• In New York, I get a tremendous amount of ideas by looking at the paintings and the sculptures, adapting artistic endeavors to crafts. There is a lot of inspiration around us that we can see every day and turn into projects.

  

  Martha Stewart
  • Ideas
  • Inspiration
  • Projects

• Every family has that secret. Every family has that thing where you go, 'Shhh, shhh, shhh.'

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • Family

• Success in business today requires real-time, mobile access to business opportunities.

  

  Bob McDonnell
  • Time
  • Real
  • Business

• With my writing, I try to do stuff I have not done before. Each time I sit down, I want to have a new experience, and by extension, I want my readers to have a different experience.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Writing

• The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.

  

  Matt LeBlanc

• Music knits people together in some strange way. Same thing with food.

  

  Dwight Henry
  • People
  • Music
  • Together

• The Japanese say, If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.

  

  Lester Cole
  • Beautiful
  • Flower
  • Japanese

• Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Difficult
  • Give Up
  • Luxuries

• Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Quality

• But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Power
  • Brain
  • Elements

• When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Confidence
  • Goals

• While we all want to move beyond trauma, the part of our brain that is devoted to ensuring our survival (deep below our rational brain) is not very good at denial. Long after a traumatic experience is over, it may be reactivated at the slightest hint of danger and mobilize disturbed brain circuits and secrete massive amounts of stress hormones.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Experience
  • Brain
  • Survival