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

• The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Winning
  • Baseball
  • Three

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

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Country
  • Justice
  • See

• I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • World
  • Mind
  • Brain

• I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people round for dinner. When you travel a lot, you feel rootless and adrift - this is my sanctuary, where I can breathe out.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Live
  • House

• I believe in a strong national defense. But it's my belief that neither Iraq nor Afghanistan poses a threat to national security, and we shouldn't be involved in either area.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Believe
  • Strong
  • Security

• 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

• It's lovely having grass and trees and flowers(Of course, at times, mosquitoes are a pest).Yes, life is life out here in Rangely Towers(Of course Some People like the city best)!

  

  Arthur Guiterman
  • People
  • Life
  • City

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

  

  Dorothy Dandridge
  • Person
  • Criticized
  • Cheered

• When someone is looking down, they're saying no. When they're looking up, they're looking to their brain for memory. When they look to the left, they're looking for a lie or something they memorized. When they look to the right, they're feeling sorry - they don't want to answer.

  

  Duane Chapman
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Brain

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

  

  Dylan Sprouse
  • Decision

• Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

  

  Jean Paul
  • Poverty

• 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

• The directing is something that is incredibly satisfying to me and challenging to me because it's asking me to draw on everything I've been able to absorb over all these years of acting and having all this set experience.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Experience

• Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Woman
  • Things
  • Moon

• 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