Despair Quote by Norman Cousins Download Open image “The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling.” — Norman Cousins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Despair Fulfilling Self Trouble
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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are down can't… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
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Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If you're in despair, you don't know how to be part of your own life anymore. — Naomi Wallace Copy Share Image
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Unobstructed access to facts can produce unlimited good only if it is matched by the desire and ability to find out what they mean… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . .… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
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… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The starting point for a better world is the belief that it is possible. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
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… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
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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… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
“As ofttimes as it rains on my little spot of earth, you'd think I'd grow accustomed to the gloom.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
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My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings. — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
Enough for this bow & arrow. It caused me nothing but sorrow. No need for another tomorrow. In your heart, I will never be… — Louaiq8 Copy Share Image
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
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