Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized… — Norman Cousins Change Copy Share Image
The physician's ability to reassure the patient is a major factor in activating the body's own healing system. — Norman Cousins Ability Copy Share Image
Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human… — Norman Cousins Destructive Copy Share Image
Nature has not been lavish in her endowments, but each person has his or her own potential in terms of achievement and… — Norman Cousins Achievement Copy Share Image
Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of… — Norman Cousins Command 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
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
Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country. — Norman Cousins Business 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
The need is to recognize that The patient is the healer, Not the doctor. — Norman Cousins Doctors 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 Copy Share Image
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. — Norman Cousins Adventure 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
Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great… — Norman Cousins Expectations 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
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 purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us — Norman Cousins Education 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
“Time is the one thing that patients need most from their doctors--time to be heard, time to have things explained, time to… — Norman Cousins Health 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
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man. — Norman Cousins Educated 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
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
