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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The way a book is read – which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book – can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it. ~ Norman Cousins
Some people don’t really know enough to make a pronouncement of doom on a human being. ~ Norman Cousins
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. ~ Norman Cousins
People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time. ~ 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
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can also invent peace with justice. ~ Norman Cousins
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. ~ Norman Cousins
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man. ~ Norman Cousins
If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. ~ 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
