Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Traumatic experiences are often lost in time and concealed by shame, secrecy, and social taboo, but the study revealed that the impact of trauma pervaded these patients’ adult lives.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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I don't think things have changed for me. Yes, I got a big contract, but my focus is still the same.
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For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.
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When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music.
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I'd like to be curvier.
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Lizz Wright is my favourite singer. Her voice moves me and takes me to another place. She also grows her own food, and that inspires me.
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If you want to do something, what does it matter where you are ranked?
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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
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Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one enriching activity to the next, first surfaced in the early 20th century.
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Dinner parties are still highly popular, and I believe they always will be.
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From its onset, the labor movement has been at the forefront of the fight to improve working conditions and workplace safety. At the local level, knowing their union has their back gives workers the confidence and support they need to stand up and report harassment, poor working conditions, or workplace safety violations.
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Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time.
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The heart of the entrepreneur can beat freely in anyone.
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I feel like you can be the best role model by being yourself.
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I hope the Church will examine what is good and what is ill, and what good could be achieved by getting the suicidal, self-destructive, possibly carnal, or celibate to move toward this experience of love.
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I'm not going to do red jeans. No green jeans. I don't do Vans and that's the style right now. I don't want to show my socks when I'm wearing jeans.
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The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.
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Raising a daughter is hard work. There's no other way to describe it for me.
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The quickest way to create a boy or man who lacks compassion is to judge and shame his feelings.
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Trauma really does confront you with the best and the worst. You see the horrendous things that people do to each other, but you also see resiliency, the power of love, the power of caring, the power of commitment, the power of commitment to oneself, the knowledge that there are things that are larger than our individual survival. And in some ways, I don't think you can appreciate the glory of life unless you also know the dark side of life.
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By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow. You shortchange yourself by devaluing the experiences and knowledge you've banked, all those things that have been making you, you.
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Traumatic experiences are often lost in time and concealed by shame, secrecy, and social taboo, but the study revealed that the impact of trauma pervaded these patients’ adult lives.
