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Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration

Book by Norman Cousins · 10 quotes · Doctors, Laughter, May

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Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration Quotes

“What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . . form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too.”

“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.”