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Quotations by author » Norman Cousins
American Essayist and Editor, long associated with the Saturday Review. 1912-1990
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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.
ConsequencesInfluenceUniverse
Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.
Laughter
Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions
LaughterPositive thinking
Laughter is inner jogging.
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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
AdventureForgivenessLife
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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My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.
FaithReason
No one really knows enough to be a pessimist
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Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life
Actors and actingConscience
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
OptimismPessimism
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
FearPeople
People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time
ThinkingWorld
Pessimism is a waste of time
Pessimism
Pessimism operates in a narrowed field of vision that fails to take into account the possibilities at the outer edges of experience.
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Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
Respect
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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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.
Hope
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
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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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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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