Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Rage that has nowhere to go is redirected against the self, in the form of depression, self-hatred, and self-destructive actions. One of my patients told me, ‘It is like hating your home, your kitchen and pots and pans, your bed, your chairs, your table, your rugs.’ Nothing feels safe – least of all your own body.
Bessel van der Kolk
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To mark the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, I wanted to launch an FDNY shirt that pays tribute to the brave first responders who, like my father, risk their lives in the line of duty on a regular basis. All of the proceeds raised from the sale of the T-shirt benefit the New York Police & Fire Widows' & Children's Benefit Fund.
Mark Sanchez
Racist people are few, in the minority. But you can do nothing to change them. You can talk, you can do what you want, but you can't do anything because they are just stupid people.
Mario Balotelli
I play guitar, bass, drums, piano, and pretty much any sort of stringed instrument - besides violin or cello.
Mark Foster
Foster the People
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Frank Leahy
I know Chandler is similar to me. But if you watched my life for a week, there would be many more boring parts.
Matthew Perry
I taught woman-centered childbirth classes for five years and have a particular interest in the history of childbirth practices.
Jo Beverley
The president's economic plan doesn't do enough to create new jobs and that has to be a national priority. While there are some signs the economy is improving, it is not translating into jobs.
Jay Rockefeller
God is holding you in His heart, right at this very moment. It's a fact that can make you feel so small yet so big at the same time.
Mark Hart
Crowded House
Like so many survivors of childhood abuse, Marilyn exemplified the power of the life force, the will to live and to own one's life, the energy that counteracts the annihilation of trauma. I gradually came to realize that the only thing that makes it possible to do the work of healing trauma is awe at the dedication to survival that enabled my patients to endure their abuse and then to endure the dark nights of the soul that inevitably occur on the road to recovery.
Bessel van der Kolk
All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?
Thomas Sowell
Rage that has nowhere to go is redirected against the self, in the form of depression, self-hatred, and self-destructive actions. One of my patients told me, ‘It is like hating your home, your kitchen and pots and pans, your bed, your chairs, your table, your rugs.’ Nothing feels safe – least of all your own body.
Bessel van der Kolk
