Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
As long as a memory is inaccessible, the mind is unable to change it. But as soon as a story starts being told, particularly if it is told repeatedly, it changes – the act of telling itself changes the tale. The mind cannot help but make meaning out of what it knows, and the meaning we make of our lives changes how and what we remember.
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I've always enjoyed poor health.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
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I'm not a control freak.
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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
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Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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Everybody likes a compliment.
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I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
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All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.
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Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
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I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there.
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Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.
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Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
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Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.
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The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with base notes, or dark lake with the treble.
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Vegetarianism is an act of the imagination. It reflects an ability to imagine alternatives to the texts of meat.
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If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.
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My mom means the world to me. She's always been the one to get me up early for work, help me with my make up and hair, and just be there to support me in whatever I do. She always makes sure that no matter what, I'm happy in what I'm doing.
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As long as a memory is inaccessible, the mind is unable to change it. But as soon as a story starts being told, particularly if it is told repeatedly, it changes – the act of telling itself changes the tale. The mind cannot help but make meaning out of what it knows, and the meaning we make of our lives changes how and what we remember.
