George Howe Colt famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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...science is confirming what we know in our hearts: that, as psychiatrist James Gordon put it," massage is medicine."
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... it is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person.
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The poetic sensibility was too good for this world, it was best to burn brightly and to die young like a shooting star.
-- George Howe Colt
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May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.
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The Holy Spirit is just as truly in us when He makes no sign as when the fountains of joy are overflowing, or the waters of peace are softly refreshing our weary and troubled heart.
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When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
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But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts
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To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.
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God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
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A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.
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The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered.
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