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
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
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
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
If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. – 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
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man. – 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
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
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
Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. – 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
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
