Norman Cousins Quotes

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

Norman Cousins

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• Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Honesty

• Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Age
  • Blessed
  • Acceptance

• In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Life
  • Man
  • Poverty

• We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can - music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government.

  

  Sam Farr
  • People
  • Peace
  • Government

• Citizens victimized by genocide or abandoned by the international community do not make good neighbors, as their thirst for vengeance, their irredentism and their acceptance of violence as a means of generating change can turn them into future threats.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Good
  • Future
  • Change

• There is a decivilizing bug somewhere at work; unconsciously persons of stern worth, by not resenting and resisting the small indignities of the times, are preparing themselves for the eventual acceptance of what they themselves know they don’t want.

  

  E. B. White
  • Work
  • Small
  • Acceptance

• If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you say will be an acceptance of the drift to the coming human hell.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Real
  • Acceptance

• In my research, I've interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call 'different': scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.

  

  Brené Brown
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Animal

• Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

  

  Kenneth L. Pike
  • Life
  • God
  • Power

• My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

  

  Frank Ocean
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Smart

• I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

  

  Robert Plant Led Zeppelin
  • Great
  • Success
  • Period

• Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.

  

  Czeslaw Milosz
  • Feeling
  • Acceptance

• Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

  

  Chris Christie
  • Country
  • Wisdom
  • Acceptance

• I suddenly realised I could maybe occupy a different position because of age, a kind of acceptance.

  

  Bob Monkhouse
  • Different
  • Age
  • Acceptance

• Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name.

  

  Frank Herbert
  • Done
  • Acceptance

• We must teach compassion and tolerance and encourage kindness, selflessness, and loving acceptance of all who are created in the image of God.

  

  Ephraim Mirvis
  • God
  • Compassion
  • Kindness

• We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Time
  • Fighting
  • Courage

• Tattoos are a right of passage. They're a marker of bravery, of maturity, of cultural acceptance. The tattoo represents not only a willingness to accept pain - to endure it - but a need to actively embrace it. Because life is painful - beautiful but painful.

  

  Nicola Barker
  • Acceptance
  • Tattoo
  • Bravery

• The old fashioned family physician and general practitioner ... was a splendid figure and useful person in his day; but he was badly trained, he was often ignorant, he made many mistakes, for one cannot by force of character and geniality of person make a diagnosis of appendicitis, or recognize streptococcus infection.

  

  Charles Loomis Dana
  • Character
  • Science
  • Mistake

• I guess I’ll do what everyone else does: get on with my life and forget the big questions.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Life

• A loving mother–son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. 'Don't tell anyone, but...' my mother was always saying to me – when I wasn't saying it to her.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Mother
  • Relationship
  • Son

• Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

  

  Norman Cousins
  • Acceptance
  • Diagnosis