“The more that you can associate things you want to remember with structures you already have in your mind, the easier it's going to be to remember.”— Elizabeth Phelps, imdb.com
“All super foods are just normal foods with a better narrative.”— Thomas Ward, Hannah Gadsby, Liz Doran, Josh Thomas, Josh, Josh Thomas, imdb.com
“I think that you need to own your narrative. Not let it control you.”— Laurie Nunn, Otis Milburn, Asa Butterfield, imdb.com
“All this will be for nothing. We will have been for nothing. Defined by their histories, distorted to fit into their narrative, until all that is left of us are the monsters in the stories they tell their children.”— Robert Levine, Jonathan E. Steinberg, Captain Flint, Toby Stephens, imdb.com
“Mindfulness has been shown to have a positive effect on numerous psychiatric, psychosomatic, and stress-related symptoms, including depression and chronic pain.”— Bessel Van Der Kolk, amazon.com
“When something reminds traumatized people of the past, their right brain reacts as if the traumatic event were happening in the present.”— Bessel Van Der Kolk, amazon.com
“Dissociation is the essence of trauma. The overwhelming experience is split off and fragmented, so that the emotions, sounds, images, thoughts, and physical sensations related to the trauma take on a life of their own.”— Bessel Van Der Kolk, amazon.com
“It is enormously difficult to organize one’s traumatic experiences into a coherent account—a narrative with a beginning, a middle, and an end.”— Bessel Van Der Kolk, amazon.com
“The form that best captures the experience of colliding forms is narrative.”— Caroline Levine, amazon.com
“Weave a narrative into your messages. This way, you get to build slowly up to a climax, teasing and tantalizing him all the way. In other words, tell him a story of what you plan on doing to him.”— Sean Jameson, elitedaily.com
“When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“But the chief advantage of language is not communication but autogeneration. Language is a trick that allows the mind to question itself ; a magic mirror that reveals to the mind what the mind thinks; a handle that turns a mind into a tool. With a grip on the slippery, aimless activity of self-aware…”— Kevin Kelly, amazon.com