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“Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.” quote by Norman Cousins — Download Open image

“Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.”

Norman Cousins

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The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is…

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Unobstructed access to facts can produce unlimited good only if it is matched by the desire and ability to find out what they mean…

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What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . .…

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You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.

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On the quality of life: #1. Realize that each human being has a built-in capacity for recuperation and repair. #2. Recognize that the quality of life is all-important. #3. Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life. #4. Nurture the regenerative and restorative forces within you. #5. Utilize laughter to create a mood in which the other positive emotions…

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What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more…

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The starting point for a better world is the belief that it is possible.

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The physician knows that his little black bag can carry him only so far and that the body's own healing system is the main…

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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…

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The essence of man is imperfection. Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success. If we learn to embrace that new definition…

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My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

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The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth.

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No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of the cerebrum subserve different kinds of mental action. Localization of function is the law of all organization whatever: separateness of duty is universally accompanied with separateness of structure: and it would be marvellous were an…

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