Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness. [Norman Cousins]
Quote: A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. [Norman Cousins]
Quote: Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors. [Norman Cousins]
Quote: 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]
Quote: All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body. [Norman Cousins]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose. [Norman Cousins]
Quote: We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought. [Norman Cousins]
Quote: We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America. [Norman Cousins]
Quote: 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]
Quote: A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences. [Norman Cousins]
Quote: Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is. [Norman Cousins]
Quote: Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will. [Norman Cousins]