Norman Cousins Quotes

June 5, 2021June 9, 2021 Undefeated Motivation

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

“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

“History is a vast early warning system.” -Norman Cousins

“History is a vast early warning system.” -Norman Cousins

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

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

“Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.” -Norman Cousins

“Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.” -Norman Cousins

“He who keeps his cool best wins.” -Norman Cousins

“He who keeps his cool best wins.” -Norman Cousins

“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

“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

“Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.” -Norman Cousins

“Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.” -Norman Cousins

“Life is an adventure in forgiveness.” -Norman Cousins

“Life is an adventure in forgiveness.” -Norman Cousins

“Laughter is inner jogging.” -Norman Cousins

“Laughter is inner jogging.” -Norman Cousins

“It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.” -Norman Cousins

“It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.” -Norman Cousins

“Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.” -Norman Cousins

“Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.” -Norman Cousins

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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.” -Norman Cousins

“Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.” -Norman Cousins

“My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.” -Norman Cousins

“My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.” -Norman Cousins

“Cynicism is intellectual treason.” -Norman Cousins

“Cynicism is intellectual treason.” -Norman Cousins

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

“People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.” -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

“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

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

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

“Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.” -Norman Cousins

“Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.” -Norman Cousins

“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.” -Norman Cousins

“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.” -Norman Cousins

“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

“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

“A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.” -Norman Cousins

“A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.” -Norman Cousins

“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.” -Norman Cousins

“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.” -Norman Cousins

“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

“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.” -Norman Cousins

“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.” -Norman Cousins

“We will not have peace by afterthought.” -Norman Cousins

“We will not have peace by afterthought.” -Norman Cousins

“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?” -Norman Cousins

“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?” -Norman Cousins

“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

“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

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

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

“The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.” -Norman Cousins

“The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.” -Norman Cousins

“The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.” -Norman Cousins

“The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.” -Norman Cousins

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