Norman Cousins
Norman Cousins
Norman Cousinswas an American political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 June 1915
CountryUnited States of America
disease panic serious
Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.
father individual-choice choices
Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right to disassociate without penalty. Belief or nonbelief was a matter of individual choice - a right underwritten in the basic charter of the nation's liberties.
laughter healthy adequate
An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person.
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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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Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
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The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
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Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.
faith reason
My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.
book reading writing
A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.
life hope powerful
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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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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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.
laughter humor exercise
What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . . form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too.
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Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.