Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care. — Norman Cousins Care Copy Share Image
You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow. — Norman Cousins Esteem Copy Share Image
The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society. — Norman Cousins Boredom Copy Share Image
Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country. — Norman Cousins Business Copy Share Image
Intelligence and the spirit of adventure can be combined to create new energies, and out of these energies may come exciting and… — Norman Cousins Adventure Copy Share Image
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams. — Norman Cousins Dream Copy Share Image
We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep. — Norman Cousins Aging Copy Share Image
Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life. — Norman Cousins Acting Copy Share Image
The physician's ability to reassure the patient is a major factor in activating the body's own healing system. — Norman Cousins Ability Copy Share Image
It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world. — Norman Cousins Education 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
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
“The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned… — Norman Cousins Book Copy Share Image
To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species. The essence of man… — Norman Cousins Affirmation Copy Share Image
Laughter may or may not activate the endorphins or enhance respiration, as some medical researchers contend. What seems clear, however, is that… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The doctor knows that it is the prescription slip itself, even more than what is written on it, that is often the… — Norman Cousins Doctor Copy Share Image
What people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those things that are essential for their survival. They need… — Norman Cousins Communication Copy Share Image
Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors. — Norman Cousins Comedy Copy Share Image
The starting point for a better world is the belief that it is possible. — Norman Cousins Belief Copy Share Image
The real wealth, not only of America, but of the world, is in the resources of the ground we stand on, and… — Norman Cousins America 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
Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top. — Norman Cousins Comedy 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
More and more, the choice for the world's people is between world warriors and world citizens. — Norman Cousins Choice 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 Disease Copy Share Image
More and more, the choice for the world's people is between becoming world warriors or world citizens. — Norman Cousins Choices Copy Share Image
We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life — Norman Cousins Conscience Copy Share Image
The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community. — Norman Cousins Citizenship Copy Share Image
