Norman Cousins

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

#crisis #great #great changes #habit #him

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#eternal #his #human #human being #individual

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#because #comes #immortality #life #made

Laughter is inner jogging. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#jogging #laughter

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#concerning #destiny #education #failure #human

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. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#consequences #does #dwelling #fashions #goods

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#hope #independent #logic

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

#basic #effects #energy #felt #just

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#nourishes #reason

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#dies #greatest #inside #life #live