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Norman Cousins Quotes
Norman Cousins Quotes
Norman Cousins
American
Author
Born:
Jun 24
,
1915
Died:
Nov 30
,
1990
Being
Education
Human Being
Life
Man
People
Related authors:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
Henry David Thoreau
Joyce Meyer
Mark Twain
Og Mandino
Zig Ziglar
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins
Life
Death
Live
Inside
Greatest
Loss
Dies
While
Us
Sad Relatable
History is a vast early warning system.
Norman Cousins
History
System
Vast
Warning
Early
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
Norman Cousins
Loneliness
Human Being
Individual
Individual Human
Shatter
His
Quest
Human
Being
Eternal
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
Norman Cousins
Life
Forgiveness
Adventure
Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.
Norman Cousins
Hope
Independent
Logic
Apparatus
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
Sad
Life
Death
Man
Yourself
Men
Feeling
Pain
Awareness
Other
Possible
Response
Inside
Inspired
He
Feel
Glory
Makes
Genuine
Tragedy
Dies
While
Lives
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
Hope
Physician
Patient
Secret
Secret Weapon
Hidden
Weapon
Hopes
Direction
Powerful
Any
Human
Experiences
Human Body
Ingredients
Body
Why
Medical
Prescription
Gravitational
Pull
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
Norman Cousins
Wisdom
Consequences
Consists
Anticipation
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
Words
Own
Incomplete
Degrees
Point
He
Idea
Another
Courses
Makes
How
His
Person
May
Move
Graduation
Difference
Cannot
Little
Use
Many
University
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
Norman Cousins
Life
Education
History
Library
Birth
Delivery
Ideas
Where
Place
Room
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
Norman Cousins
Dreams
People
Fears
Become
Insecure
More
Never
Obsessed
Than
Expense
Laughter is inner jogging.
Norman Cousins
Laughter
Jogging
Inner
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
Life
Hope
Destination
Sense
Energy
Significant
Fact
Most
Provides
Get
Human
Human Beings
Capacity
Beings
Started
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
Norman Cousins
Time
Wait
Facts
Prospects
Deals
Optimism
Pessimism
Waste
Waste Of Time
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
Today
People
Control
Security
Rather
Only
Through
Force
Than
American
Any
American People
Use
Found
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
Great
Compassion
Latter
Outgrow
Indifference
Both
Individual
He
Within
His
Former
Capable
Means
Nourish
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
Great
Man
Changes
Once
Crisis
Recognized
Habit
Wrought
Him
Understood
Imprisoned
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
Human Being
World
Every
Thirty
Destructive
Thousand
About
Indignation
Fact
Pounds
Force
Human
Being
Where
Us
USSR
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
Thought
Seen
Energy
Action
Universe
Unseen
Felt
Without
Ultimate
Loss
Effects
Just
Basic
Present
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
Space
Moon
Men
Earth
Eye
Significant
About
Foot
Most
Voyage
Set
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