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Norman Cousins
A book is...
A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds...
Cynicism is intellectual...
Cynicism is intellectual treason.
Source: Human Options, Norton 81
-- Norman...
A library, to...
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas a place where...
Just as there...
Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or...
If something comes...
If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to...
No one really...
No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
Laughter is a...
Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an...
Hope is independent...
Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
Man is not...
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis -- once that crisis can be recognized...
People are never...
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their...
The eternal quest...
The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness.
Source: In
Drugs are not...
Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.
Source: In
It makes little...
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an...
The growth of...
The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on...
Death is not...
Death is not the enemy; living in constant fear of it is.
Source: The Healing...
The main failure...
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human...
Free will and...
Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your...
The capacity for...
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and...
A human being...
A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling....
Your heaviest artillery...
Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.
Source:...
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