Edward Taub quotes

Edward Taub quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Taub Therapy gives patients hope that they can recapture the life they had before suffering a stroke or TBI.”
-- Edward Taub

#Giving Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Patient Quotes

“Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.”

Source : Thomas Chalmers (1848). “Select Works of Thomas Chalmers ...: Comprising His Miscellanies; Lectures on Romans; Astronomical, Commercial and Congregational Discourses”, p.153
“He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.49, Macmillan
“We must never forget that Christ did not suffer just during His three years of public ministry or the last few days of His life when He was crucified. No, He suffered throughout His life on earth. He who was without sin lived daily with the corruption and sinfulness of lost humanity.”
“Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.”
“I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.”
“Ecology more important than saving animals from slavery??? Humans suffer the raping of the earth but animals suffer DOUBLY: the raping of the earth PLUS their own raping by humans. They are innocent/they are not the ones who raped the earth/they enrich it for us all from the tiniest microscopic beings to the largest ones.”
“Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.”
“Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.”
“We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.”
“Not having hair makes me feel like a cancer patient.”

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