Norman Cousins

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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"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."
Norman Cousins
"Each patient carries his own doctor inside him."
Norman Cousins Anatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient - Reflections on Healing and Regeneration
"Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences."
Norman Cousins
"Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going."
Norman Cousins
"My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason."
Norman Cousins
"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."
Norman Cousins
"It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing."
Norman Cousins
"Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors."
Norman Cousins
"Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time."
Norman Cousins
"The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself."
Norman Cousins
"It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete."
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."
Norman Cousins
"He who keeps his cool best wins."
Norman Cousins
"People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams."
Norman Cousins
"Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man."
Norman Cousins
"Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic."
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."
Norman Cousins
"Government in the U. S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country."
Norman Cousins
"The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war."
Norman Cousins
"A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says thinks or does is without consequences."
Norman Cousins
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