Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Left my CBT therapist to work with a psychodynamic psychiatrist and I joined a Pilates class.
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I just sing what I feel in my heart. I ain't trying to prove nothing, and I don't think I ever did.
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I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.
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In entertainment, there's a theory that you should be lunching and dinnering and going to some kind of power breakfast.
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It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.
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I actually studied literature at university, so I'm much more of an arts-based person, but I remember I actually did enjoy physics because you got to do weird experiments. I remember we did this thing with static where we all had to put our hands on this static ball to see that your hair would all stand on end.
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And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.
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I have achieved what I set out to achieve when I took over the leadership. The Greens have gone from strength to strength with solid election results and a growing, engaged party membership.
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The protected place in space and time that we once called childhood has grown shorter.
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I want to congratulate the Iraqi people who have shown courage and determination in voting today.
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Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene.
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The music that I make isn't really like any of the music that I listen to. I think I listen to cool music, but I know that I don't make cool music - so it's kind of funny!
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Your city is remarkable not only for its beauty. It is also, of all the cities in the United States, the one whose name, the world over, conjures up the most visions and more than any other, incites one to dream.
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You try to avoid the mistakes you made in the past.
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Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.
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Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.
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I don't like the piano player music of the movies, the Michael Nyman, and sometimes that piano music makes me puke. It's not really romantic. It's just trying to get your Pavlovian juices flowing because it's a technique now.
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'MMMbop' ultimately is about trying to see the positive in the negative, trying to see the positive relationships you'll have the in the face of challenge and strife.
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When you're sick, who does the shopping or takes you to the doctor? Who do you talk to when you are upset?" In other words, who provides you with emotional and practical support? Some patients gave us surprising answers: "my dog" or "my therapist" – or "nobody".
