199 Quotes by Norman Cousins
"Not every illness can be overcome. But many people allow illness to disfigure their lives more than it should. They cave in needlessly. They ignore and weaken whatever powers they have for standing erect. There is always a margin within which life can be lived with meaning and even with a certain measure of joy, despite illness."
"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."
"If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality."
"We are becoming a nation of sissies and hypochondriacs, a self medicating society easily intimidated by pain and prone to panic. We understand almost nothing about the essential robustness of the human body or its ability to meet the challenge of illness."
"Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors."
"The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war."