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.

Quote by Norman Cousins

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Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances...

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances...

Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to...

Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to...

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought...

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought...

In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate...

In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate...

History is a vast early warning system.

History is a vast early warning system.

The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings...

The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings...

Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions

Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions

Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.

Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.

We will not have peace by afterthought.

We will not have peace by afterthought.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought...

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought...

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history...

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history...

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

Pessimism is a waste of time

Pessimism is a waste of time

The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which...

The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which...

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances...

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances...

Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions.

Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an...

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an...

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all...

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all...

The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be...

The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be...