Author: Norman Cousins

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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.

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

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.

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

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

- 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

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.

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.

- Norman Cousins

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

- Norman Cousins

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.

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

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

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

- Norman Cousins

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