“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
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
The capacity for hope is most significant fact of life. It provides human being with sense of destination and energy to get… — Norman Cousins Hope 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
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
An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person. — Norman Cousins Adequate Copy Share Image
Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep. — Norman Cousins Aging Copy Share Image
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. — Norman Cousins Capacity Copy Share Image
Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible. — Norman Cousins Belief 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
“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
Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but… — Norman Cousins Associates Copy Share Image
To be able to rise from the earth; to be able, from a station in outer space, to see the relationship of… — Norman Cousins Able 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 main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. — Norman Cousins Despair 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
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny. — Norman Cousins Destiny Copy Share Image
Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going. — Norman Cousins Artillery 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
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
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
Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top. — Norman Cousins Happiness Copy Share Image
