Norman Cousins Quotes

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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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  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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• The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself - but that force in not independent of the belief system. Everything begins with belief. What we believe is the most powerful option of all.

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  Powerful, Believe, Independent

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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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  Life, Achievement, Immortality

  Norman Cousins (1974). “The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinity”, Harper San Francisco

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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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  Dream, Fear, Insecure

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• The control center of your life is your attitude.

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  Life, Attitude, Life Is

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• On the quality of life: #1. Realize that each human being has a built-in capacity for recuperation and repair. #2. Recognize that the quality of life is all-important. #3. Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life. #4. Nurture the regenerative and restorative forces within you. #5. Utilize laughter to create a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work for yourself and those around you. #6. Develop confidence and ability to feel love, hope and faith, and acquire a strong will to live.

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  Strong, Laughter, Health

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• You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.

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  Life, Motivational, Self Esteem

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• Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bullet-proof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that can assault you in disease.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Block

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• Death is not the greatest tragedy in life. The greatest tragedy is what dies inside us while we live. We need not fear death. We need fear only that we may exist without having sensed something of the possibilities that lie within human existence.

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  Lying, Tragedy, Needs

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• The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are down can't scan the horizon for new openings. Bursts of energy do not spring from a spirit of defeat. Ultimately, helplessness leads to hopelessness.

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  Spring, Self, People

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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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  Happiness, Laughter, Moving

  Norman Cousins (1989). “Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit”, Penguin Group USA

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• Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

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  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Life Changing

  Norman Cousins (1989). “Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit”, Penguin Group USA

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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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  Hope, Live Life, Facts

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• Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life

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  Attitude, Responsibility, Quality

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• Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.

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  Food, Health, Doctors

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.

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  Determination, Connections, Purpose

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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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  Pain, Laughter, Sleep

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body.

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  Depression, Hate, Frustration

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• Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

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  Healing, Recovery, Nursing

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.17, Open Road Media

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• Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible.

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  Life, Motivational, Progress

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• Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

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  Motivational, Wisdom, Entrepreneur

  Norman Cousins (1974). “The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinity”, Harper San Francisco

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• The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us

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  Purpose, Purpose Of Education

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• Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.

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  Acceptance, Negative, May

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• Second only to freedom, learning is the most precious option on earth.

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  Earth

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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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  Inspirational, Adventure, Growth

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