A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing… — Norman Cousins Consequences Copy Share Image
It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body. — Norman Cousins Body Copy Share Image
Unobstructed access to facts can produce unlimited good only if it is matched by the desire and ability to find out what… — Norman Cousins Ability Copy Share Image
Pain is part of the body's magic. It is the way the body transmits a sign to the brain that something is… — Norman Cousins Body Copy Share Image
What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye… — Norman Cousins Earth 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
The heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those… — 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
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
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
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 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
Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification, not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to… — Norman Cousins Capitalism Copy Share Image
The one thing I have learned about editing over the years is that you have to edit and publish out of your… — Norman Cousins 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 Birth 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
More and more, the choice for the world's people is between becoming world warriors or world citizens. — Norman Cousins Choices 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
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 Emotional Copy Share Image
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living? — Norman Cousins Death Copy Share Image
We have everything we need, in fact, except the most important thing of all — time to think and the habit of thought. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bullet-proof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather… — Norman Cousins American people Copy Share Image
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. — Norman Cousins Death Copy Share Image
If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first. — Norman Cousins Conflict Copy Share Image
In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility. — Norman Cousins Democracy Copy Share Image
We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is… — Norman Cousins America Copy Share Image
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny. — Norman Cousins Destiny Copy Share Image
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized… — Norman Cousins Change Copy Share Image
Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great… — Norman Cousins Comedy Copy Share Image
The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession. — Norman Cousins Conquest Copy Share Image
Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. — Norman Cousins Approach Copy Share Image
Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without… — Norman Cousins Absence Copy Share Image
Reverence for life is more than solicitude or sensitivity for life. It is a sense of the whole, a capacity for inspired… — Norman Cousins Awareness Copy Share Image
But we have yet to make peace basic to our education. The most important subject in the world is hardly taught at… — Norman Cousins Basic education Copy Share Image
I've learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess.… — Norman Cousins Atomic bomb Copy Share Image
