Norman Cousins Quotes - Page 2

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• All things are possible, once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake.

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  Inspiring, Being Real, Realizing

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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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• 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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• He who keeps his cool best wins.

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  Winning, Literature

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• Laughter is inner jogging.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Laughing

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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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• Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.

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  Wisdom, Trying, Diagnosis

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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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• Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions

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  Positive, Laughter, Powerful

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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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• 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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• War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

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  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Norman Cousins (1963). “The New Realities The First Richard Joshua Reynolds Lecture at Emory and Henry College, Emory, Virginia, Nov. 19, 1963”

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• The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

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  Missing You, Heartbroken, Lonely

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

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• A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

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  Fashion, Thinking, Dwelling

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

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• It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

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  Healing, Health, Doctors

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.52, Open Road Media

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• The starting point for a better world is the belief that it is possible.

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  World, Belief, Starting

  Norman Cousins (1972). “World”, s.n.

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• Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.

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  Teaching, Learning, Thinking

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• History is a vast early warning system.

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  History, Historical, Warning

  "Saturday Review" Magazine, April 15, 1978.

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• Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is life without privacy. The difference between sanity and madness is the quality of our thoughts. Silence is on the side of sanity.

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  Differences, Serenity, Silence

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• The essence of man is imperfection. Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success. If we learn to embrace that new definition of failure, then we are free to start moving ahead - and failing forward.

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  Moving, Men, Essence

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• Pain is part of the body's magic. It is the way the body transmits a sign to the brain that something is wrong.

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  Pain, Magic, Brain

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.10, Open Road Media

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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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  Life, Respect, Men

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• If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation

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  News, May, Claims

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• The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope

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  Motivational, Powerful, Body

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• A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure.

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  Hurt, Pain, Attitude

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