Norman Cousins was a prominent political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate.
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“Laughter is inner jogging.”
Norman Cousins
“No one really knows enough to be a pessimist”
“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.”
“Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis -- once that crisis can be recognized and understood.”
“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.”
“The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.”
“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.”
“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”
“All things are possible once enough human beings realize that the whole of the human future is at stake”
“The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.”