Norman Cousins quotes

Life is an adventure in forgiveness. (Norman Cousins)
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
Norman Cousins
Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.
Norman Cousins
A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.
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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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History is a vast early warning system.
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If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.
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The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness.
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Laughter is inner jogging.
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Cynicism is intellectual treason.
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The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny. (Norman Cousins)
What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.
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Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live.
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Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
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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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A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
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We will not have peace by afterthought.
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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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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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War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
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What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication. (Norman Cousins)
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 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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He who keeps his cool best wins.
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Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
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