Norman Cousins Quotes
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.
If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.
The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth.
You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.
If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
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.
A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.
Pain is part of the body's magic. It is the way the body transmits a sign to the brain that something is wrong.
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.
In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.
All things are possible, once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake.
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
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.
The heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those who do not are indifferent to those who do.
Integration is a basic law of life; when we resist it, disintegration is the natural result, both inside and outside of us. Thus we come to the concept of harmony through integration.
Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.
A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.
The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us
What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.
Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
