Norman Cousins Short Quotes

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Infinity converts the possible into the inevitable.

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

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Inevitably, an individual is measured by his or her largest concerns.

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

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Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.

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

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

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Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

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All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

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More and more, the choice for the world's people is between world warriors and world citizens.

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Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.

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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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If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

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The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.

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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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The physician's ability to reassure the patient is a major factor in activating the body's own healing system.

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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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Most men think they are immortal—until they get a cold, when they think they are going to die within the hour.

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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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Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences—and I remind you that consequences can be both good and bad.

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If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first.

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Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect that would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.

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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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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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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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I have learned that life is an adventure in forgiveness. Nothing clutters the soul more than remorse, resentment, recrimination.

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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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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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The physician knows that his little black bag can carry him only so far and that the body's own healing system is the main resource.

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Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of existence for him.

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