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1. "The control center of your life is your attitude." ~ Norman Cousins
2. "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." ~ Norman Cousins
3. "I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate -- even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth." Norman Cousins (in his; Anatomy of an Illness)" ~ Norman Cousins
4. "„Niemand weiß wirklich genug um ein Pessimist zu sein." ~ Norman Cousins
5. "Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live." ~ Norman Cousins
6. "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
7. "If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality." ~ Norman Cousins
8. "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." ~ Norman Cousins
9. "People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams." ~ Norman Cousins
10. "A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life." ~ Norman Cousins
11. "Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors." ~ Norman Cousins
12. "Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time." ~ Norman Cousins
13. "He who keeps his cool best wins." ~ Norman Cousins
14. "It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing." ~ Norman Cousins
15. "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
16. "Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood." ~ Norman Cousins
17. "The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness." ~ Norman Cousins
18. "History is a vast early warning system." ~ Norman Cousins
19. "Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences." ~ Norman Cousins
20. "My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason." ~ Norman Cousins
21. "Laughter is inner jogging." ~ Norman Cousins
22. "Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man." ~ Norman Cousins
23. "Cynicism is intellectual treason." ~ Norman Cousins
24. "Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going." ~ Norman Cousins
25. "Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic." ~ Norman Cousins
26. "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." ~ Norman Cousins
27. "What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth." ~ Norman Cousins
28. "Each patient carries his own doctor inside him." ~ Norman Cousins

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May the energy of the day always call for celebration." Barbara Botch"
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