Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
After a while most people with PTSD don’t spend a great deal of time or effort on dealing with the past—their problem is simply making it through the day. Even traumatized patients who are making real contributions in teaching, business, medicine, or the arts and who are successfully raising their children expend a lot more energy on the everyday tasks of living than do ordinary mortals.

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There is always pressure in football.
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A holiday vacation can mean sampling all kinds of new cuisine - whether it's Uncle Joe's award-winning chili or the exotic flavors of Nepal. If your little ones are fussy, be sure to ease mealtime hassles by bringing along a supply of the familiar foods they're accustomed to rejecting at home.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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I spent ten years riding motorcycles.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
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I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
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Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
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I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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Visually, a lot of the electronic artists have really interesting video and interesting things like that.
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My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.
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The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.
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Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.
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Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.
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I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.
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Very interested in any technology that can help create a safer and more secure America.
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I was going to college on a full scholarship. I graduated summa cum laude. I was always on the dean's list. I was never a kid that started any kind of trouble.
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In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.
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After a while most people with PTSD don’t spend a great deal of time or effort on dealing with the past—their problem is simply making it through the day. Even traumatized patients who are making real contributions in teaching, business, medicine, or the arts and who are successfully raising their children expend a lot more energy on the everyday tasks of living than do ordinary mortals.