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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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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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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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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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
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In 'Billy Madison,' I worked with Adam before anyone really knew he was Adam Sandler.
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For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the Chosen of Pain.
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Muslim girls, we love fashion! Whether we wear the hijab or not - it's our choice - and it's time the industry took note. Finally, fashion stores are open to that idea.
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I always try to follow my moral compass.
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How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.
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It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion.
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Maybe the wealth we wanted as children is this, I thought: not strongboxes full of diamonds and gold coins but a bathtub, to immerse yourself like this every day, to eat bread, salami, prosciutto, to have a lot of space even in the bathroom, to have a telephone, a pantry and icebox full of food, a photograph in a silver frame on the sideboard that shows you in your wedding dress—to have this entire house, with the kitchen, the bedroom, the dining room, the two balconies, and the little room where I am studying, and where, even though Lila hasn’t said so, soon, when it comes, a baby will sleep.
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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.
