Norman Cousins

Drugs are not always necessary, belief in recovery always is.

Health • Medicine • Recovery

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

Beliefs • Faith • Philosophy

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

Exercise • Health • Humor

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.

Destiny • Energy • Hope

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Dreams • Fear • Insecurity

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

Health • Hope • Medicine

History is a vast early warning system.

History

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Adventure • Forgiveness • Life

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

Awareness • Human • Inspiration

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Wisdom

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

Education • Human

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

Hope • Independence

Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.

Determination • Motivational • Perseverance

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

Death • Life • Loss

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Culture • Education • History