We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought. — Norman Cousins All time 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 greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself - but that force in… — Norman Cousins Belief 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
If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. — Norman Cousins Approach 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
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 way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have… — Norman Cousins Book Copy Share Image
Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is. — Norman Cousins Belief 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
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place… — Norman Cousins Delivery room Copy Share Image
The great challenge of the '90s... is to salvage and improve the UN and to develop it into an agency capable of… — Norman Cousins Agency Copy Share Image
People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time — Norman Cousins Habits Copy Share Image
All men - whether they go by the name of Americans or Russians or Chinese or British or Malayans or Indians or… — Norman Cousins British Copy Share Image
The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society. — Norman Cousins Boredom Copy Share Image
The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are… — Norman Cousins Defeat Copy Share Image
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death… — Norman Cousins Awareness 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
The present mode of life on earth is madness, which is nontheless lethal for being legal. Rational existence is possible, but it… — Norman Cousins Citizens Copy Share Image
