Norman Cousins Quotes

Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.

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• Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Never
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• Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • India
  • Some
  • Nationalism

• I'm a typical California boy.

  

  Gary Lockwood
  • Boy
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• The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Space
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  • Moon

• I was on paper earning more money and having more success than I'd ever had. And it was also the most miserable I've ever been. When those things collided, I realised something was off. That's when I started poking around to figure out what was wrong.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Money
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• All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Good
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• Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • May

• I'm getting Puppetmasters, too. They're one of my favorites. And they're coming out with new Puppetmasters. I try not to get everything, but I want so much.

  

  Jason Mewes

• Whether I'm in the main event or on the preliminary card, the same Cowboy is going to be out there.

  

  Donald Cerrone
  • Cowboy

• If I talk about something I either talk about it or I DO it... the minute I talk about it it's lost all it's drive and all it's fun.

  

  Carol Channing
  • Fun
  • Lost

• Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

  

  Bil Keane
  • Why
  • Future
  • Today

• My Marxism has taken root and become purified. I believe in armed struggle as the only solution for those peoples who fight to free themselves, and I am consistent with my beliefs.

  

  Che Guevara
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Taken

• I am not one of those who see war as a cricket match where you first give anything to defeat the opponent and then shake hands

  

  Douglas Bader
  • War

• I had started teaching because I love brainteasers. At some point, I had taken every standardized test out there - the SATs, the GREs, the GMATs, the MCATs. I just took them for fun.

  

  Jose Ferreira
  • Fun
  • Taken

• Education is not acquisition of burdensome information regarding objects and men. It is the awareness of the immortal spirit within,, which is the spring of joy, peace and courage.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Men
  • Education
  • Peace

• Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the hand that bears it is heavier. When it is thrown, the circuits of the stars respond, and where it strikes or falls the universe is changed.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Thinking

• She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.

  

  Billy Joel
  • She
  • Eyes
  • Smile

• Every book leaves its mark on you. It might leave you hungry for that kind of book or you may be satiated, and you're eager to read something else. It might send you in a completely different direction. I love that about reading.

  

  Laila Lalami
  • Different
  • May
  • Book

• Say you'll love, love me forever Never stop, not for whatever Near and far and always and Everywhere and everything. I love you, always forever Near and far, close and together Everywhere, I will be with you Everything, I will do for you I love you, always forever Near and far, close and together Everywhere, I will be with you Everything, I will do for you.

  

  Donna Lewis
  • Life
  • Together
  • Forever

• Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health.

  

  Aristotle
  • Health
  • Exercise
  • Laughter

• The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship...

  

  Jane Austen
  • Nature
  • Minutes
  • Painful

• Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.

  

  Norman Cousins
  • Laughter
  • Hours
  • Minutes