Norman Cousins Quotes

• He who keeps his cool best wins.

  Norman Cousins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wins, Win, Keeps

• A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

  Norman Cousins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fashions, Consequences

• A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Book

• 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.

  Norman Cousins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Book

• 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.

  Norman Cousins

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Survival, Nations

• Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

  Norman Cousins

  Topics in Death, Inspirational, Life

  Tags in Greatest, Dies

• My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

  Norman Cousins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Faith, Reason

• The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

  Norman Cousins

  Topics in Education, Failure

  Tags in Main, Matters

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

  Norman Cousins

  Topics in Laughter

  Tags in Outdoors, Hearty

• 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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  Topics in Laughter

• Laughter is inner jogging.

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  Topics in Laughter

  Tags in Jogging

• The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us.

  Norman Cousins

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Us, Purpose

• Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

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  Tags in Government

• 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.

  Norman Cousins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Gravitational, Powerful

• People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time

  Norman Cousins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Thinking

• Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

  Norman Cousins

  Tags in Optimism, Pessimism

• In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

  Norman Cousins

  Topics in Democracy, Power

  Tags in Responsibility

• The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

  Norman Cousins

  Tags in Feeling Lonely

• Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions.

  Norman Cousins

  Topics in Laughter

  Tags in Positive Thinking

• Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.

  Norman Cousins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acceptance

Norman Cousins (47)

Birth:	24th June, 1915
Death:	30th November, 1990
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Journalist, Professor

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