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We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.
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A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual…
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Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the feel, the…
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Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for…
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The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.
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It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.
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When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked salmon and…
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I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its…
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About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations.
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Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer…
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I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of significance, an…
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Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many hundreds of…
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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.
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A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief.…
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In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about…
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Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I…
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Standing there at the stage door to the rest of your life. Time to dip your toe into the deep end. Try…
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We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Forget your past failure and gain wisdom from the lesson you got from failure.
— Anil Sinha
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If You Want To Gain Knowledge, Add Something Everyday To Your Mind. But If You Want To Gain Wisdom, Remove Something Everyday…
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