Author: Norman Cousins

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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

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

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

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

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

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

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

- Norman Cousins

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

- Norman Cousins

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