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Norman Cousins

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


— Norman Cousins


#death

Life is an adventure in forgiveness


— Norman Cousins


#forgiveness #forgiveness

The control center of your life is your attitude.


— Norman Cousins


#attitude

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.


— Norman Cousins


#comes #delivery #famous #history #ideas

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


— Norman Cousins


#life-and-living #death

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


— Norman Cousins


#facts #optimism #pessimism #prospects #time

History is a vast early warning system.


— Norman Cousins


#early #system #vast #warning

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.


— Norman Cousins


#comes #delivery #history #ideas #library

Cynicism is intellectual treason.


— Norman Cousins


#intellectual #treason

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


— Norman Cousins


#good #good way #having #hearty #internally






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Did you know about Norman Cousins?

He edited the high school paper "The Square Deal" where his editing abilities were already in evidence. He wrote a collection of best-selling non-fiction books on illness and healing as well as a 1980 autobiographical memoir Human Options: An Autobiographical Notebook. "When the pain-killing effect of the laughter wore off we would switch on the motion picture projector again and not infrequently it would lead to another pain-free interval.

Norman Cousins (June 24 1915 – November 30 1990) was an American political journalist author professor and world peace advocate.

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