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

• We do believe in an inside-out culture. If we hold our hosts and guests to an expectation of acceptance and belonging, it has to start within our company. Otherwise, how on earth do we have the credibility to hold them accountable if we're not doing it to ourselves?

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • Believe
  • Earth
  • Culture

• 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

• As its citizens humbly recommit to an acceptance of guidance from the God of our fathers, our nation will once again see the miraculous resurrection of the proud, responsible, visionary black father. And with him, his family and community will be lifted.

  

  Burgess Owens
  • God
  • Family
  • Father

• 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

• The passive acceptance of exclusionary words and deeds is not okay.

  

  Chris Sacca
  • Words
  • Acceptance

• The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice.

  

  Koichi Tanaka
  • Character
  • Small
  • Challenge

• When people are chronically angry or scared, constant muscle tension ultimately leads to spasms, back pain, migraine headaches, fibromyalgia, and other forms of chronic pain. They may visit multiple specialists, undergo extensive diagnostic tests, and be prescribed multiple medications, some of which may provide temporary relief but all of which fail to address the underlying issues. Their diagnosis will come to define their reality without ever being identified as a symptom of their attempt to cope with trauma.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Pain
  • Angry
  • Tests

• Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To them it is salvation and beatification.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Nature
  • Law

• You realize you can't change the world but it shouldn't stop you from trying.

  

  Kevin Maurice Johnson
  • World
  • Trying
  • Stop

• Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.

  

  Elgin Baylor
  • Time
  • Effort
  • Performance

• The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.

  

  John Milton
  • Man
  • Childhood
  • Shows

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

  

  Norman Cousins
  • Acceptance
  • Diagnosis