Norman Cousins Quotes

"Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic."
-Norman Cousins in Hope quotes.

"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."
-Norman Cousins in Hope quotes.

"Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations."
-Norman Cousins in Laughter quotes.

"Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time."
-Norman Cousins in Optimism quotes.

"Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions."
-Norman Cousins in Laughter quotes.

"People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams."
-Norman Cousins in Fear quotes.

"The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us."
-Norman Cousins in Education quotes.

"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 in it. Anyone who can read, can learn to read deeply and thus live more fully."
-Norman Cousins in Reading quotes.

"We will not have peace by afterthought."
-Norman Cousins