Best Quotes by Norman Cousins (Top 10)
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Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
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Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.
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People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
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Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.
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The control center of your life is your attitude.
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The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
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Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.
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Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
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More Norman Cousins Quotes
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A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
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He who keeps his cool best wins.
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Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.
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The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth.
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Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.
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Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
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The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
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Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.
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Laughter is inner jogging.
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Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
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History is a vast early warning system.
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The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.
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The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.
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It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
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The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
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The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
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The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
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Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions
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War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
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Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
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We will not have peace by afterthought.
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Cynicism is intellectual treason.
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Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life
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The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.
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Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
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The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.
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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.
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In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.
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All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.
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