"The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical."

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

Norman Cousins

#Spiritual Quotes #Get Well Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 sq. mi. of southern California desert. Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn't happen.”
“If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.”
“When gods die, they die hard. It's not like they fade away, or grow old, or fall asleep. They die in fire and pain, and when they come out of you, they leave your guts burned. It hurts more than anything you can talk about. And maybe worst of all is, you're not sure if there will ever be another god to fill their place. Or if you'd ever want another god to fill their place. You don't want the fire to go out inside you twice.”

Source : Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.”
“Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.”

Source : Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.60
“If you want to work on the core problem, it's early school literacy.”
“The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.”

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