Norman Cousins Quotes

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins

Life, Death, Live

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
Norman Cousins

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.
Norman Cousins

Graduation, Education, Person

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
Norman Cousins

Life, History, Place

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
Norman Cousins

Forgiveness, Life, Adventure

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

Good, Laughter, Outdoors

He who keeps his cool best wins.
Norman Cousins

Cool, Best, Wins

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
Norman Cousins

Dreams, Insecure, Become

History is a vast early warning system.
Norman Cousins

History, System, Early

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
Norman Cousins

Great, Crisis, Him

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

Life, Made, Others

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

Time, Wait, Optimism

Cynicism is intellectual treason.
Norman Cousins

Cynicism, Treason

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.
Norman Cousins

Faith, Reason, Nourishes

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
Norman Cousins

Loneliness, Human, Individual

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.
Norman Cousins

Life, Hope, Human

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.
Norman Cousins

Hope, Powerful, Human

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
Norman Cousins

Education, Failure, Human

Laughter is inner jogging.
Norman Cousins

Laughter, Inner, Jogging

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
Norman Cousins

Life, Respect, Individual

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.
Norman Cousins

Nothing, Human, Says

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.
Norman Cousins

Hope, Logic, Apparatus

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.
Norman Cousins

Thought, Energy, Universe

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.
Norman Cousins

Great, Compassion, Means

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.
Norman Cousins

Men, Earth, Moon

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: June 24, 1915

Died: 1990

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