The starting point for a better world is the belief that it is possible. — Norman Cousins Belief 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
Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country. — Norman Cousins Business Copy Share Image
The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society. — Norman Cousins Boredom 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
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
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
If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation — Norman Cousins Bad news 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 All time 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 Capacity 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
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
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
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
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
The one thing I have learned about editing over the years is that you have to edit and publish out of your… — Norman Cousins Concern 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
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
Governments are not built to perceive large truths. Only people can perceive great truths. Governments specialize in small and intermediate truths. They… — Norman Cousins Built Copy Share Image
Fortunately or otherwise we live at a time when the average individual has to know several times as much in order to… — Norman Cousins Art Copy Share Image
“I am a single cell in the body of four billion cells. The body is humankind. I am a single cell. My… — Norman Cousins Life 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
“Illness is always an interaction between [mind and body]. It can begin in the mind and affect the body, or it can… — Norman Cousins Healing Copy Share Image
On the quality of life: #1. Realize that each human being has a built-in capacity for recuperation and repair. #2. Recognize that… — Norman Cousins Ability Copy Share Image
The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dagger world and that the only way… — Norman Cousins Action Copy Share Image
“Suppose I stopped taking aspirin and phenylbutazone? What about the pain? The bones in my spine and practically every joint in my… — Norman Cousins Health Copy Share Image
Humanity today is not safe in the presence of humanity. The old cannibalism has given way to anonymous action in which the… — Norman Cousins Ability Copy Share Image