Norman Cousins Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

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

  Norman Cousins

  Healing, Recovery, Nursing

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.17, Open Road Media

• The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself - but that force in not independent of the belief system. Everything begins with belief. What we believe is the most powerful option of all.

  Norman Cousins

  Powerful, Believe, Independent

• Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible.

  Norman Cousins

  Life, Motivational, Progress

• Belief creates biology.

  Norman Cousins

  Belief, Biology, Biodiversity

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

  Norman Cousins

  World, Belief, Starting

  Norman Cousins (1972). “World”, s.n.

• I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete. Human unity is the fulfillment of diversity. It is the harmony of opposites. It is a many-stranded texture, with color and depth.

  Norman Cousins

  Men, Color, Opposites

  Norman Cousins (1991). “The Celebration of Life: A Dialogue on Hope, Spirit, and the Immortality of the Soul”, Bantam

• Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right to disassociate without penalty. Belief or nonbelief was a matter of individual choice - a right underwritten in the basic charter of the nation's liberties.

  Norman Cousins

  Father, Individual Choice, Choices

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