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Wise Norman Cousins Quotes

May you find great value in these quotes by Norman Cousins.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
- Norman Cousins

Related topics: Inspirational Life Human-Nature Psychology Love

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

The greatest force in the human body
is the natural drive of the body to heal itself -
but that force in not independent of the belief system.
Everything begins with belief.
What we believe is the most powerful option of all.
- Norman Cousins

Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


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Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell

The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale

 

Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius

The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller

Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde

He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb

Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw

Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt

Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin

If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow

You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary

Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle

The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank

There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather

Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell

Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein

We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard

The River of Life flows - and all else is our drama.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)

Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey

We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
- don Miguel Ruiz

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard

In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Life is change. Without change, there is no life.
Why then do we so fight against change?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is a journey - enjoy the journey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is lived in the mists -
little is fully visible, less is certain.
Yet rejoice in the unknowing,
and let all of life be a wonderful adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Most everything in life is about our
point-of-view rather than any absolute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau


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