The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
We are becoming a nation of sissies and hypochondriacs, a self medicating society easily intimidated by pain and prone to panic. We… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The American people are beginning to think in new ways about health and illness . . . Bernie Siegel is helping to… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
“Illness is always an interaction between [mind and body]. It can begin in the mind and affect the body, or it can… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is… — Norman Cousins Copy Share
Unobstructed access to facts can produce unlimited good only if it is matched by the desire and ability to find out what they mean… — Norman Cousins Copy Share
What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . .… — Norman Cousins Copy Share
You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow. — Norman Cousins Copy Share
On the quality of life: #1. Realize that each human being has a built-in capacity for recuperation and repair. #2. Recognize that the quality… — Norman Cousins Copy Share
What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more… — Norman Cousins Copy Share
The physician knows that his little black bag can carry him only so far and that the body's own healing system is the main… — Norman Cousins Copy Share
We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of… — Norman Cousins Copy Share
The essence of man is imperfection. Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success. If we learn to embrace that new definition… — Norman Cousins Copy Share
The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth. — Norman Cousins Copy Share
All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body. — Norman Cousins Copy Share
Humanity today is not safe in the presence of humanity. The old cannibalism has given way to anonymous action in which the killer and… — Norman Cousins Copy Share
![“Illness is always an interaction between [mind and body]. It can begin in the mind and affect the body, or it can begin in the body and affect the mind, both of which are served by the same bloodstream. Attempts to treat most mental diseases as though they were completely free of physical causes…” quote by Norman Cousins](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3ef/norman-cousins-2488_healing_illness-is-always-an-interaction-between_3009271.png)
