The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. — Norman Cousins Capacity Copy Share Image
Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors. — Norman Cousins Comedy Copy Share Image
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. — Norman Cousins Facts Copy Share Image
“Some people don't really know enough to make a pronouncement of doom on a human being.” — Norman Cousins Doom Copy Share Image
Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care. — Norman Cousins Care Copy Share Image
Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bullet-proof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that… — Norman Cousins Agents Copy Share Image
If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. — Norman Cousins Approach Copy Share Image
Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great… — Norman Cousins Comedy Copy Share Image
Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of… — Norman Cousins Command Copy Share Image
The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession. — Norman Cousins Conquest Copy Share Image
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized… — Norman Cousins Change Copy Share Image
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny. — Norman Cousins Destiny Copy Share Image
In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility. — Norman Cousins Democracy Copy Share Image
What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person… — Norman Cousins Comedy Copy Share Image
Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but… — Norman Cousins Associates Copy Share Image
I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most… — Norman Cousins Body Copy Share Image
The American people are beginning to think in new ways about health and illness . . . Bernie Siegel is helping to… — Norman Cousins American people Copy Share Image
The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are… — Norman Cousins Defeat Copy Share Image
All men - whether they go by the name of Americans or Russians or Chinese or British or Malayans or Indians or… — Norman Cousins British Copy Share Image
Education tends to be diagrammatic and categorical, opening up no sluices in the human imagination on the wonder of the beauty of… — Norman Cousins Cosmos Copy Share Image
“The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned… — Norman Cousins Book Copy Share Image
“Time is the one thing that patients need most from their doctors--time to be heard, time to have things explained, time to… — Norman Cousins Health Copy Share Image
The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope — Norman Cousins Body Copy Share Image
Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going. — Norman Cousins Artillery Copy Share Image
Nixon's motto was, if two wrongs don't make a right, try three. — Norman Cousins Clever and witty Copy Share Image
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice. — Norman Cousins Anti war Copy Share Image
Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is. — Norman Cousins Belief Copy Share Image
Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible. — Norman Cousins Belief Copy Share Image
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. — Norman Cousins Adventure Copy Share Image
