Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Traumatic experiences do leave traces, whether on a large scale (on our histories and cultures) or close to home, on our families, with dark secrets being imperceptibly passed down through generations. They also leave traces on our minds and emotions, on our capacity for joy and intimacy, and even on our biology and immune systems.
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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MWA and The Author's Guild refused to accept me as a member.
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I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.
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Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.
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There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.
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I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'
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I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.
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Jobs are critically important, but looking at economic change through the impact on jobs has always been a difficult way to think about economic progress.
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Small habits well pursued betimesMay reach the dignity of crimes.
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The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.
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The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.
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I really want to do something to make our lives healthier.
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A boy's hunched body loved out of a stalkThe first song of his happiness, and the song wokeHis heart to the darkness and into the sadness of joy.
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IfI had never met them, I never would've known what it was like to run all out...or to cry with all my heart and laugh with all my heart...To say nothing of the way it feels to wish so much for another person's dream to come true. I never would've known what it's like to want something with all my heart. I want him to know that if I hadn't met him that day in addition to all the various new emotions I've felt,I never would've known this one overflowing in my heart.
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Traumatic experiences do leave traces, whether on a large scale (on our histories and cultures) or close to home, on our families, with dark secrets being imperceptibly passed down through generations. They also leave traces on our minds and emotions, on our capacity for joy and intimacy, and even on our biology and immune systems.
