Norman Cousins Quotes
Most popular Norman Cousins Quotes
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
History is a vast early-warning system.
No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.
Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible.
Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.
Government in the US today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
It has always seemed to me that hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
Pain is part of the body's magic. It is the way the body transmits a sign to the brain that something is wrong.
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences—and I remind you that consequences can be both good and bad.
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.
I have learned that life is an adventure in forgiveness. Nothing clutters the soul more than remorse, resentment, recrimination.
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.
The message from the moon which we have flashed to the far corners of this planet is that no problem need any longer be considered insoluble.
Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.
The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources--spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.
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.
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.
History is a vast early warning system.
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.
Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.
The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back. You've got to mobilize all your resources—spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.
