Humanity today is not safe in the presence of humanity. The old cannibalism has given way to anonymous action in which the killer and the killed do not know each other, and in which,indeed, the very fact of mass death has the effect of making mass killing less reprehensible than the death of a single individual. In short, we have… — Norman Cousins Copy Share
Education tends to be diagrammatic and categorical, opening up no sluices in the human imagination on the wonder of the beauty of… — Norman Cousins 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 Copy Share Image
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. — 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 Image
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 Image
What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . .… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow. — Norman Cousins 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 the quality of life is all-important. #3. Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life. #4. Nurture the regenerative and restorative forces within you. #5. Utilize laughter to create a mood in which the other positive emotions… — 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 Image
The starting point for a better world is the belief that it is possible. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
