The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it. — Norman Cousins Acceptance Copy Share Image
Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible. — Norman Cousins Belief Copy Share Image
Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is. — Norman Cousins Belief Copy Share Image
A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure. — Norman Cousins Attitude Copy Share Image
All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body. — Norman Cousins Body Copy Share Image
The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth. — Norman Cousins Adventure Copy Share Image
What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable… — Norman Cousins Communication Copy Share Image
The capacity for hope is most significant fact of life. It provides human being with sense of destination and energy to get… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
More and more, the choice for the world's people is between world warriors and world citizens. — Norman Cousins Choice Copy Share Image
Integration is a basic law of life; when we resist it, disintegration is the natural result, both inside and outside of us.… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or… — Norman Cousins Consequence Copy Share Image
Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top. — Norman Cousins Comedy Copy Share Image
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man. — 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 Ability Copy Share Image
To be able to rise from the earth; to be able, from a station in outer space, to see the relationship of… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's… — Norman Cousins Body Copy Share Image
Death is not the greatest tragedy in life. The greatest tragedy is what dies inside us while we live. We need not… — Norman Cousins Death Copy Share Image
Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations- plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes… — Norman Cousins Attitude Copy Share Image
I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am… — Norman Cousins Belief Copy Share Image
The American people today are involved in a warfare more deadly than the war in Vietnam, but few of them seem aware… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The present mode of life on earth is madness, which is nontheless lethal for being legal. Rational existence is possible, but it… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
“If ignorance about the nature of pain is widespread, ignorance about the way pain-killing drugs is even more so. What is not… — Norman Cousins Health Copy Share Image
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. — Norman Cousins Adventure Copy Share Image
To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species. — Norman Cousins Men Copy Share Image
Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care. — Norman Cousins Care Copy Share Image
“Some people don't really know enough to make a pronouncement of doom on a human being.” — Norman Cousins Doom Copy Share Image
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. — Norman Cousins Facts Copy Share Image
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice. — Norman Cousins Anti war Copy Share Image
