Norman Cousins

Born :24 June 1915

Tribute : 1990

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Norman Cousins born on 24th June 1915, and passed away on 1990, leaving behind a legacy that continues to inspire generations. Over the past NaN years, we have thoughtfully curated a selection of 35 powerful, inspirational, and motivational quotes - carefully handpicked from an extensive archive of life lessons and timeless wisdom. This legendary quote writer was born in american and went on to share won inspiring words with the world, leaving behind a global legacy that transcends borders.

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Quotes of Norman Cousins

Timeless words and powerful thoughts from Norman Cousins - discover the wisdom, inspiration, and voice behind the quotes that continue to resonate

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

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

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

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

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

Laughter is inner jogging.

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.

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

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

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.

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 into it.

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.

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

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.

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.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

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.

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.

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.

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