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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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How many of you say: I should like to see His face, His garments, His shoes. You do see Him, you touch…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can…
— William Shakespeare
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If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
— Denis Diderot
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There are times when I draw near enough to touch Him, then I know that He has been there all the time
— Gloria Gaither
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[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate…
— Immanuel Kant
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How many there are who still say, 'I want to see His shape, His image, His clothing, His sandals.' Behold, you do…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight,…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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You can call happy those who saw Him... But, come to the altar and you will see Him, you will touch Him,…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a…
— Edward Kennedy
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Zig Ziglar may be the master motivator, Mark Victor Hansen and Jack Canfield of Chicken Soup for the Soul, the master story…
— Doug Wead
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A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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One of my less pleasant chores when I was young was to read the Bible from one end to the other. Reading…
— John W. Gardner
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