Norman Cousins Quotes About Laughter

Quotes about: Laughter

• Laughter is inner jogging.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Laughing

• Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions

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  Positive, Laughter, Powerful

• Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Moving

  Norman Cousins (1989). “Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit”, Penguin Group USA

• 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 can be put to work for yourself and those around you. #6. Develop confidence and ability to feel love, hope and faith, and acquire a strong will to live.

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  Strong, Laughter, Health

• Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

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  Laughter, Healthy, Jogging

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.34, Open Road Media

• 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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  Pain, Laughter, Sleep

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.11, Open Road Media

• An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person.

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  Laughter, Healthy, Essentials

• Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Humans

  Norman Cousins (1989). “Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit”, Penguin Group USA

• Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bullet-proof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that can assault you in disease.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Block

• What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . . form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too.

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  Laughter, Humor, Exercise

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.60, Open Road Media

• Laughter may or may not activate the endorphins or enhance respiration, as some medical researchers contend. What seems clear, however, is that laughter is an antidote to apprehension and panic.

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  Laughter, May, Panic

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