The need is to recognize that The patient is the healer, Not the doctor. — Norman Cousins Doctor Copy Share Image
Second only to freedom, learning is the most precious option on earth. — Norman Cousins Choice Copy Share Image
The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it. — Norman Cousins Acceptance Copy Share Image
Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible. — Norman Cousins Belief Copy Share Image
Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is. — Norman Cousins Belief Copy Share Image
Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bullet-proof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that… — Norman Cousins 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 capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the… — Norman Cousins 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
We have everything we need, in fact, except the most important thing of all — time to think and the habit of thought. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation — Norman Cousins 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
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
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
But we have yet to make peace basic to our education. The most important subject in the world is hardly taught at… — Norman Cousins Basic education Copy Share Image
What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person… — Norman Cousins Comedy 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 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
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
The great challenge of the '90s... is to salvage and improve the UN and to develop it into an agency capable of… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. "Ninety-four," he said. "You… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure. — Norman Cousins Attitude Copy Share Image
All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body. — Norman Cousins Body 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 eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. — Norman Cousins Adventure Copy Share Image
If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first. — Norman Cousins Conflict 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
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
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 conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession. — Norman Cousins Conquest 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 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 Comedy 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
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
