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. -- Norman Cousins
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. -- Norman Cousins
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. -- Norman Cousins
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