Norman Cousins Quotes


34 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."
Author: Cousins Quotes Category: Problems Quotes Purpose Quotes
"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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"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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"People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time"
Author: Cousins Quotes Category: Habit Quotes
"All things are possible once enough human beings realize that the whole of the human future is at stake"
Author: Cousins Quotes Category: Future Quotes
"Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions"
Author: Cousins Quotes Category: Emotions Quotes
"The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us"
Author: Cousins Quotes Category: Education Quotes
"In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility"
Author: Cousins Quotes Category: Democracy Quotes
"Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis -- once that crisis can be recognized and understood."
Author: Cousins Quotes Category: Crisis Quotes
"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"
Author: Cousins Quotes Category: Control Quotes
"All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body."
Author: Cousins Quotes Category: Body Quotes Mind Quotes
"A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together."
Author: Cousins Quotes Category: Books And Reading Quotes American Editor Quotes
"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."
Author: Cousins Quotes Category: Body Quotes American Editor Quotes
"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."
Author: Cousins Quotes Category: Education Quotes Destiny Quotes
"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."
Author: Cousins Quotes Category: Compassion Quotes American Editor Quotes
"The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts in it. Anyone who can read, can learn to read deeply and thus live more fully."
Author: Cousins Quotes Category: Books And Reading Quotes American Editor Quotes
"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."
Author: Cousins Quotes Category: Belief Quotes American Editor Quotes
"People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams."
Author: Cousins Quotes Category: Dreams Quotes American Editor 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."
Author: Cousins Quotes Category: Men Quotes American Editor Quotes

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