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Norman Cousins was an American journalist, author, and professor. He is renowned for his role as a journalist and his promotion of laughter as a therapeutic method. Born on June 24, 1915, Cousins passed away on November 30, 1990.

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“No one has been able to define or synthesize that precarious, splendid, and perhaps untidy instant when the creative process begins. This is what the uniqueness of the artist is all about. The transcendent right of the artist is the right to create even though he may not always know what he is doing.”

Knows May Has Beens Able Artist Process Creative Instant Creative Process Uniqueness Splendid Transcendent Precarious

Author:Norman Cousins

“Intelligence and the spirit of adventure can be combined to create new energies, and out of these energies may come exciting and rewarding new prospects.”

May Spirit Energy Adventure Exciting Prospects New Energy Spirit Of Adventure

Author:Norman Cousins

“Death is not the greatest tragedy in life. The greatest tragedy is what dies inside us while we live. We need not fear death. We need fear only that we may exist without having sensed something of the possibilities that lie within human existence.”

Needs Humans May Lying Dies Existence Possibility Tragedy Fear Of Death Human Existence

Author:Norman Cousins

“Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bullet-proof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that can assault you in disease.”

May Helping Happiness Joy Emotion Laughing Protect Disease Laughter Negative Proof Block Agents Bullets Assault You Again Protect You Negative Emotions Vests

Author:Norman Cousins

“Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.”

May Acceptance Negative Deny Diagnosis Verdict

Author:Norman Cousins

“Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of existence for him.”

Men May Facts Existence Supreme Command Meaning Of Life Jurisdiction

Book:Dr. Schweitzer Of Lambaréné

Source: Dr. Schweitzer Of Lambaréné

“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.”

Source: Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey

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

May Problem Literature Answers Healing Health Doctors Medicine Medical Reasonable

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

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

“The life-force may be the least understood force on earth.”

May Earth Force Understood

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

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

“If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation”

Ifs May Nations Difficult News Claims Bad News

Author:Norman Cousins

“Laughter may or may not activate the endorphins or enhance respiration, as some medical researchers contend. What seems clear, however, is that laughter is an antidote to apprehension and panic.”

May Seems Clear Laughter Medical Panic Antidote Researchers Apprehension Activate Endorphins Respiration

Author:Norman Cousins

“We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth.”

May Earth Universe Possibility Wide Elsewhere Contemplating Miscellaneous Blinders

Author:Norman Cousins

“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.”

Mind Humans May Body Seems Earth Force Understood Capacity Illness Human Mind I Have Learned Underestimate Wretched Mind And Body Prospects

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

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

About the Author

Born: June 24, 1915
Died: November 30, 1990
Known for: Journalist
Quotes: 151

Books & Sources

Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and RegenerationRelated source material

Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human SpiritRelated source material

The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinityRelated source material

Anatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the PatientRelated source material

Present Tense; an American Editor's OdysseyRelated source material

The Celebration of Life: A Dialogue on Hope, Spirit, and the Immortality of the SoulRelated source material

Who Speaks for Man?Related source material

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In place of follyRelated source material

Dr. Schweitzer Of LambarénéRelated source material

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