Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Terror increases the need for attachment, even if the source of comfort is also the source of terror.
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To have the regard of one's peers is immensely moving.
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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Why did they force us to close the banks? To instil fear in people.And spreading fear is called terrorism.
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Can someone please explain to me what that was all about?
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How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in his entire life had he come to rest in the quiet center of himself but had forever cast himself from some dark past he could not remember to a future that did not exist. Not once had he been present for his life. So his life had passed like a dream. Is it possible for people to miss their lives the way one can miss a plane?
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I believe that history is not made by cynics; it is made by realists who are not afraid to dream. Let us be these people.
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I think about death. I don't want to die with clothes in the cleaners.
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If you see cattle as a source of organic manure, animal energy, as well as milk products, then Indian cattle are not inferior. It is only when you measure them as milk machines that they become inferior. What if we measured the dairy cows of America or Jersey or the Swiss Alps in terms of their work functions? They would be terribly inferior.
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Thou canst not force my soul to wish thee ill, That is the only evil that can kill.
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Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the Word with boldness. Even when threatened with punishment, he said that he could not help but share the things he had seen and heard.
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Two or three tons of rock can really get you down-and keep you there.
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When you have kids it's nice to have a place where they can always return to and some place where they will grow up in, but I never had that. I'm not attached to things and places. I like that we [the family] keep moving. It's a nomadic life, and I think that's a great life. I'm excited when we take our kids to a new country and they don't just immediately look for the comforts of home. They blend into that country. Send them to any place in the world and they won't be scared. They'll just feel like they can make friends there.
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The costume of women should be suited to her wants and necessities. It should conduce at once to her health, comfort, and usefulness; and, while it should not fail also to conduce to her personal adornment, it should make that end of secondary importance.
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I feel like a lot of the young actors that are just coming up are really good. I think directors are directing better.
