My quote store | Norman Cousins

History is a vast early warning system.
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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.
What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . .a form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too.
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
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.
Laughter is inner jogging.