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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People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.
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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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He shoots the ball extremely well from the perimeter, which will help our low-post players, ... He is a veteran who brings both playoff experience and leadership.
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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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Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men.
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The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.
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The coward’s fear of death stems in large part from his incapacity to love anything but his own body. The inability to participate in others’ lives stands in the way of his developing any inner resources sufficient to overcome the terror of death.
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My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
