Norman Cousins was a prominent political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate.
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“If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.”
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.”
“Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.”
“For every low there is an equal but opposite high.”
“My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.”
“I do not object to people looking at their watches when I am speaking. But I strongly object when they start shaking them to make sure they are still going.”
“Pessimism is a waste of time”
“Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.”
“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.”
“Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life”