Norman Cousins “Life is an adventure in forgiveness.” -Norman Cousins “Life is an adventure in forgiveness.” -Norman Cousins Related Quotes “I still have a Gypsy sense of adventure. I don’t think I have slept in the same bed for more than three or four months my whole life. I am always planting vegetables that I never get to eat and flowers that I never see flower. I have always moved around the world.” -Helen Mirren “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” -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 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 “If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.” -Norman Cousins “Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.” -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 “Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.” -Norman Cousins “History is a vast early warning system.” -Norman Cousins