Norman Cousins (June 24, 1915 – November 30, 1990) was an American political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate.
Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions
Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of existence for him.
Fortunately or otherwise we live at a time when the average individual has to know several times as much in order to keep informed as he did only thirty or forty years ago. Being "educated" today requires not only more than a superficial knowledge of the arts and sciences, but a sense of inter-relationship such as is taught in few schools. Finally, being "educated" today, in terms of the larger needs, means preparation for world citizenship; in short, education for survival.
My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.
We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America.
In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.
The starting point for a better world is the belief that it is possible.
The control center of your life is your attitude.
Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.
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.
Death is not the enemy; living in constant fear of it is.
For every low there is an equal but opposite high.
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
The real wealth, not only of America, but of the world, is in the resources of the ground we stand on, and in the resources of the humankind.
Intelligence and the spirit of adventure can be combined to create new energies, and out of these energies may come exciting and rewarding new prospects.
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.