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“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”
― Norman Cousins

“Life is an adventure in forgiveness”
― Norman Cousins

“Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.”
― Norman Cousins, Anatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient - Reflections on Healing and Regeneration

“The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.”
― Norman Cousins

“If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.”
― Norman Cousins

“The control center of your life is your attitude.”
― Norman Cousins

“Laughter is inner jogging.”
― Norman Cousins

“History is a vast early warning system.”
― 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.”
― 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.”
― Norman Cousins

“Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.”
― Norman Cousins

“Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions”
― Norman Cousins

“I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate -- even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth." Norman Cousins (in his; Anatomy of an Illness)”
― Norman Cousins, Anatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient

“Some people don't really know enough to make a pronouncement of doom on a human being.”
― Norman Cousins, Anatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient - Reflections on Healing and Regeneration

“The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. 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.
— Cited in ALA Bulletin, Oct. 1954, p.475”
― Norman Cousins

“A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.”
― Norman Cousins

“I am a single cell in the body of four billion cells. The body is humankind. I am a single cell. My needs are individual but they are not unique. I am interlocked with other human beings in the consequences of our actions, thoughts, and feelings. I will work for human unity and human peace; for a moral order in harmony with the order of the universe. Together we share the quest for a society of the whole equal to our needs, a society in which we need not live beneath our moral capacity, and in which justice has a life of its own. We are single cells in a body of four billion cells. The body is humankind.” --Norman Cousins, Human Options: An Autobiographical Notebook, 1981”
― Norman Cousins