Selected quotes · 15
№ 01
“Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.”
Norman CousinsPhilosophy
№ 02
“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 CousinsPatience
№ 03
“Drugs are not always necessary, belief in recovery always is.”
Norman CousinsWisdom
№ 04
“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 CousinsAction
№ 05
“Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.”
Norman CousinsCreativity
№ 06
“People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.”
Norman CousinsCourage
№ 07
“A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.”
Norman CousinsLife
№ 08
“Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.”
Norman CousinsCreativity
№ 09
“Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.”
Norman CousinsWisdom
№ 10
“Life is an adventure in forgiveness.”
Norman CousinsLife
№ 11
“My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.”
Norman CousinsFaith
№ 12
“The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.”
Norman CousinsFailure
№ 13
“History is a vast early warning system.”
Norman CousinsWisdom
№ 14
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”
Norman CousinsFailure
№ 15
“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 CousinsLeadership