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The control center of your life is your attitude.
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The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice ... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.
— Norman Cousins
History is a vast early warning system.
— Norman Cousins
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
— Norman Cousins
Laughter is a form of internal jogging.
— Norman Cousins
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
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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My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.
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Death is not the enemy; living in constant fear of it is.
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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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People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.
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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.
— Norman Cousins
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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The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.
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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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Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care.
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We will not have peace by afterthought.
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Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.
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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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An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person.
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The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
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For every low there is an equal but opposite high.
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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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Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.
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Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible.
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Laughter is inner jogging.
— Norman Cousins
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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It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world.
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The message from the moon which we have flashed to the far corners of this planet is that no problem need any longer be considered insoluble.
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A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure.
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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 things are possible, once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake.
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Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.
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Belief becomes biology.
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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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He who keeps his cool best wins.
— Norman Cousins
The need is not to amputate the ego ... but to transcend it.
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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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No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.
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Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life
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The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines we need.
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Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.
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Cynicism is intellectual treason.
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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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The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.
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You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.
— Norman Cousins
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
— Norman Cousins
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
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Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.
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In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.
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The real wealth, not only of America, but of the world, is in the resources of the ground we stand on, and in the resources of the humankind.
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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 growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth.
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History is an accumulation of error.
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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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Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living?
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The life-force may be the least understood force on earth.
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Infinity converts the possible into the inevitable.
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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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Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.
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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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The physician's ability to reassure the patient is a major factor in activating the body's own healing system.
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Some people don't really know enough to make a pronouncement of doom on a human being.
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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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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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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.
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Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
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Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.
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All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.
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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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The essence of man is imperfection.
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Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
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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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Life is an adventure in forgiveness
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Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
— Norman Cousins
The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.
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The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
— Norman Cousins
Pessimism is a waste of time.
— Norman Cousins
Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions
— Norman Cousins