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Norman Cousins Quotes
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Laughter is inner jogging (Norman Cousins Quotes)
The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war (Norman Cousins Quotes)
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man (Norman Cousins Quotes)
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 (Norman Cousins Quotes)
Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top (Norman Cousins Quotes)
It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body (Norman Cousins Quotes)
If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation (Norman Cousins Quotes)
Laughter may or may not activate the endorphins or enhance respiration, as some medical researchers contend. What seems clear, however, is that laughter is an antidote to apprehension and panic (Norman Cousins Quotes)
Pain is part of the body’s magic. It is the way the body transmits a sign to the brain that something is wrong (Norman Cousins Quotes)
More and more, the choice for the world’s people is between world warriors and world citizens (Norman Cousins Quotes)
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 (Norman Cousins Quotes)
To be able to rise from the earth; to be able, from a station in outer space, to see the relationship of the planet earth to other planets; to be able to contemplate the billions of factors in precise and beautiful combination that make human existence possible; to be able to dwell on an encounter of the human brain and spirit with the universe (Norman Cousins Quotes)
What people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those things that are essential for their survival. They need to convert facts into logic, free will into purpose, conscience into decision. They need to convert historical experience into a design for a sane world (Norman Cousins Quotes)
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is a gain (Norman Cousins Quotes)
Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will (Norman Cousins Quotes)
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness (Norman Cousins Quotes)
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 (Norman Cousins Quotes)
Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is (Norman Cousins Quotes)
Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country (Norman Cousins Quotes)
Life is an adventure in forgiveness (Norman Cousins Quotes)
Reverence for life is more than solicitude or sensitivity for life. It is a sense of the whole, a capacity for inspired response, a respect for the intricate universe of individual life. It is the supreme awareness of awareness itself (Norman Cousins Quotes)
The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth (Norman Cousins Quotes)
Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations (Norman Cousins Quotes)
Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living? (Norman Cousins Quotes)
Governments are not built to perceive large truths. Only people can perceive great truths. Governments specialize in small and intermediate truths. They have to be instructed by their people in great truths (Norman Cousins Quotes)
The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose (Norman Cousins Quotes)
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 Quotes)
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice (Norman Cousins Quotes)
The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines we need (Norman Cousins Quotes)
What was significant about the laughter... was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person... form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too (Norman Cousins Quotes)