Norman Cousins Quotes

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Norman Cousins

Profession : Author

Birth : June 24, 1915

Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.

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

He who keeps his cool best wins.

Norman Cousins

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

Norman Cousins

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

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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.

Norman Cousins

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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History is a vast early warning system.

Norman Cousins

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Norman Cousins