"Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves."

-- Bessel van der Kolk

#Past Quotes #Self Quotes #People Quotes

“Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.”
“How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard.”

Source : 1889 On suicide. Diary entry, 5 Aug.
“Im having an amazing life and it isnt over yet.”
“It is not with a rush and a spring that we are to reach Christ's character, and attain to perfect saintship; but step by step, foot by foot, hand over hand, we are slowly and often painfully to mount the ladder that rests on earth, and rises to heaven.”

Source : Thomas Guthrie (1862). “The Way to Life: Sermons”, p.192
“And now, with the aid of this common beer glass, I shall play my fifty guinea solo.”
“Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.”

Source : Shirley Hazzard (2003). “The Bay of Noon: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan
“Every game is huge and every game will count when it's all said and done.”

Source : Source: beachcarolina.com
“My dear hands. Farewell, my poor hands.”

Source : "Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music". Book by Sergei Bertensson, p. 381, 2002.

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