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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But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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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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For me, this is what a coach's dream is, to be able to rekindle the kind of promise and love of the game that a player had when she first started out, ... She's very happy and healthy.
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Groups become more extreme and entrenched in their beliefs and polarized from others when members only exchange information that reinforces their views and filter out all else or never learn of alternatives. Thus they narrow their options, and magnify each other's prejudices and misconceptions. This trend leads to blind spots in decision making and to extreme behavior, even terrorism.
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When I played in a band, people just stand there and look at you and criticize what they didn't like. But if you watch a D.J. show, people go crazy from beginning to end. Say what you want against D.J.'s, but you can't deny that the energy level in the audience is for the most part far above what rock bands have.
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Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
