Quote by Norman Cousins
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It pro

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. – Norman Cousins

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will. – Norman Cousins

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Will, Willpower
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The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patients hopes are the physicians secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription. – Norman Cousins

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Hope
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Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. – Norman Cousins

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Death
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Other Quotes from
Hope
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Theres always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope. – Jonathan Sacks

Category:
Hope

Ive seen the ticket, and I still cant believe it. When I see the money, I hope I dont hit the floor. – Judy Garland

Category:
Hope

Hope is patience with the lamp lit. – Tertullian

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Hope

I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding. – Gustav Mahler

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Hope

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No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance. – Henry Miller

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great

Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies. – Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

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Health

Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship – two of lifes major assets. – Eleanor Robson Belmont

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Friendship

A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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People