A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together. — Norman Cousins Book Copy Share Image
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The message from the moon which we have flashed to the far corners of this planet is that no problem need any… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much… — Norman Cousins Book Copy Share Image
The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines… — Norman Cousins Architect Copy Share Image
The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth. — Norman Cousins Adventure Copy Share Image
No one has been able to define or synthesize that precarious, splendid, and perhaps untidy instant when the creative process begins. This… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
“I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate -- even when prospects seem most… — Norman Cousins Human mind Copy Share Image
Education fails unless the Three R's at one end of the school spectrum lead ultimately to the Four P's at the other-Preparati… — Norman Cousins Better world Copy Share Image
The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have… — Norman Cousins Book Copy Share Image
We are becoming a nation of sissies and hypochondriacs, a self medicating society easily intimidated by pain and prone to panic. We… — Norman Cousins Ability 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 Copy Share Image
Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations- plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes… — Norman Cousins Attitude 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 capacity for hope is most significant fact of life. It provides human being with sense of destination and energy to get… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable… — Norman Cousins Communication Copy Share Image
More and more, the choice for the world's people is between world warriors and world citizens. — Norman Cousins Choice Copy Share Image
Integration is a basic law of life; when we resist it, disintegration is the natural result, both inside and outside of us.… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top. — Norman Cousins Comedy Copy Share Image
A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or… — Norman Cousins Consequence 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
It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world. — Norman Cousins Education Copy Share Image
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man. — Norman Cousins 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
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
We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the… — Norman Cousins 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
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place… — Norman Cousins Delivery room Copy Share Image
Intelligence and the spirit of adventure can be combined to create new energies, and out of these energies may come exciting and… — Norman Cousins Adventure Copy Share Image
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams. — Norman Cousins Dream Copy Share Image
The physician knows that his little black bag can carry him only so far and that the body's own healing system is… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time — Norman Cousins Habits 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 Copy Share Image
If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it;… — Norman Cousins Advocate 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 American people today are involved in a warfare more deadly than the war in Vietnam, but few of them seem aware… — Norman Cousins 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 present mode of life on earth is madness, which is nontheless lethal for being legal. Rational existence is possible, but it… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
