Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Trauma victims cannot recover until they become familiar with and befriend the sensations in their bodies.
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We both thought this is where my hunger came from, living in the training center, living the simple life. For me to be my best, I didn't want to change anything before 2006.
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When you get out in the field, it's just like any other game. You want to be the same player, the same team that has gotten them to that point. I don't think you have to do anything special. Just be yourself and allow all the time you put in that take over and get the job done.
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What people believe prevails over the truth.
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It seems acceptable today to scream for revolution, without any concept of what will follow it. This is just what the forces at large want, for who will follow a man who doesn't know where he's going?
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Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
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Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing.
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If your like me, you like to wait till your parents are having sex and walk in on them and act like its an accident, and then ask if you can join in.
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Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent; we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.
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Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?
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The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer of God by honest searching.
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The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical.
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I'm really exciting. I smile a lot, I win a lot, and I'm really sexy.
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My photography has really always been about what I feel I'm getting out of it. What people on the outside get doesn't concern me.
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My eyes are so big that, weirdly, I feel like an alien if my eyelashes don't match their intensity. I like to curl my lashes to the point where they're sticking straight up and then put on a ton of mascara!
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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.
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Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma.
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Trauma victims cannot recover until they become familiar with and befriend the sensations in their bodies.
