Author: Norman Cousins

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The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

- Norman Cousins

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

- Norman Cousins

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

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

Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.

Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.

- Norman Cousins

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

- Norman Cousins

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

- Norman Cousins

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

- Norman Cousins

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

- Norman Cousins

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

- Norman Cousins

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