Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going. — Norman Cousins Artillery Copy Share Image
The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope — Norman Cousins Body Copy Share Image
The starting point for a better world is the belief that it is possible. — Norman Cousins Belief Copy Share Image
Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors. — Norman Cousins Comedy 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
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
The heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those… — Norman Cousins 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
We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought. — Norman Cousins 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
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
More and more, the choice for the world's people is between becoming world warriors or world citizens. — Norman Cousins Choices 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
Laughter may or may not activate the endorphins or enhance respiration, as some medical researchers contend. What seems clear, however, is that… — Norman Cousins 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 Book 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
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
The one thing I have learned about editing over the years is that you have to edit and publish out of your… — Norman Cousins 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
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 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 most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society. — Norman Cousins Boredom 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
You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow. — Norman Cousins Esteem Copy Share Image
All things are possible, once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake. — Norman Cousins 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
The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. — Norman Cousins Despair Copy Share Image
