In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.


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... stress hormones are meant to give us the strength and endurance to respond to extraordinary cond...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK
It was early in my career, and I had been seeing Mary, a shy, lonely, and physically collapsed you...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK
Isolating oneself into a narrowly defined victim group promotes a view of others as irrelevant at be...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK
Generally the rational brain can override the emotional brain, as long as our fears don’t hijack u...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK
As I discussed in the previous chapter, attachment researchers have shown that our earliest caregive...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK
Beneath the surface of the protective parts of trauma survivors there exists an undamaged essence, a...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK
A few years ago I heard Jerome Kagan, a distinguished emeritus professor of child psychology at Harv...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK
The scientific study of suffering inevitably raises questions of causation, and with these, issues o...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK
You are not meant to serve time. Time is meant to serve you. Become the master of your now
E'YEN A. GARDNER
To express yourself in a creative way you don't need structure you need an empty mind.
E'YEN A. GARDNER
The life that I have lived was no more than a mask covering the real me. What has happened was not t...
E'YEN A. GARDNER
Oneness with God is not a dream, it is the only reality. Everything else is an illusion.
E'YEN A. GARDNER
Life is simple, just be yourself.
E'YEN A. GARDNER
Come out of hiding, don't be afraid to be yourself.
E'YEN A. GARDNER
When we know Love, fear has no value in our presence. There is no pressure to perform and mask our h...
E'YEN A. GARDNER
However, if we don’t confront the seed of lies, it gives place for them to take root in us and we ...
E'YEN A. GARDNER
If there is no door to your dream, create one.
E'YEN A. GARDNER
Patience is learned through waiting
E'YEN A. GARDNER
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS
To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS
Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS
I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
E. E. CUMMINGS
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CUMMINGS
I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS
At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS
Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS
It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS
Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS
Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS
He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS
To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS
To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS
A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. CUMMINGS
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
E. E. CUMMINGS
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. CUMMINGS
A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CUMMINGS
Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. CUMMINGS
Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
E. E. JENKINS
To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E E CUMMINGS
The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS
To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS