To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species. — Norman Cousins Men Copy Share Image
All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body. — Norman Cousins Body Copy Share Image
A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure. — Norman Cousins Attitude Copy Share Image
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. — Norman Cousins Birth Copy Share Image
All things are possible, once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake. — Norman Cousins All things Copy Share Image
Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it. — Norman Cousins Acceptance 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
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
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 makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an… — Norman Cousins Courses Copy Share Image
Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system. — Norman Cousins Connections Copy Share Image
The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of… — Norman Cousins Paralysis Copy Share Image
An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person. — Norman Cousins Adequate Copy Share Image
Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present… — Norman Cousins Action 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 Activate 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
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
I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am… — Norman Cousins Belief Copy Share Image
The American people today are involved in a warfare more deadly than the war in Vietnam, but few of them seem aware… — Norman Cousins Air 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 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
The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us — Norman Cousins Develop Copy Share Image
Second only to freedom, learning is the most precious option on earth. — Norman Cousins Choice Copy Share Image
The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. — Norman Cousins Despair 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
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
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
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 heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those… — Norman Cousins Cause 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
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
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 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
