20 quotes
"If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality."
- Norman Cousins
Love
"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."
- Norman Cousins
Awareness
"History is a vast early warning system."
- Norman Cousins
Awareness
"History is a vast early warning system. #PayAttention #HistoricalPatterns"
- Norman Cousins
Awareness
"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
Awareness
"Drugs are not always necessary, belief in recovery always is."
- Norman Cousins
Belief
"Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is."
- Norman Cousins
Belief
"The starting point for a better world is the belief that it is possible"
- Norman Cousins
Belief
"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
Compassion
"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
Hope
"War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace."
- Norman Cousins
Hope
"Each patient carries his own doctor inside him."
- Norman Cousins
Self-awareness
"The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness."
- Norman Cousins
Personal Growth
"Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man."
- Norman Cousins
Respect
"Life is an adventure in forgiveness."
- Norman Cousins
Forgiveness
"The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness."
- Norman Cousins
Aspirations
"Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors."
- Norman Cousins
Health
"Laughter is inner jogging."
- Norman Cousins
Health
"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
Education
"A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life."
- Norman Cousins
Education