Norman Cousins

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he ...
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Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with ...
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History is a vast early warning system.

Laughter is inner jogging.

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

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.

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

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

History is a vast early warning system.

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

He who keeps his cool best wins.

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

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

Laughter is inner jogging.

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.

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.

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

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

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

We will not have peace by afterthought.

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.

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