All Norman Cousins Quotes
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
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A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.
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The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
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If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.
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Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
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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.
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If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
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Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
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The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
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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.
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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.
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The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
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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.
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