Norman CousinsWe will not have peace by afterthought. ✨ Saturday Review magazine, Editorial, 1956.362Thought
Norman CousinsHistory is a vast early warning system. ✨ Saturday Review Magazine, April 15, 1978.351Truth
Norman CousinsDrugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is. ✨ Norman Cousins (2016). Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regenera… ▶363Reflection
Norman CousinsPain is part of the body's magic. It is the way the body transmits a sign to the brain that something is wrong. ✨ Norman Cousins (2016). Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived b… ▶341ReflectionSadnessThought
Norman CousinsI cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete. Human unity is the fulfillment of diversity. It … ▶331DeathHopeHumanity
Norman CousinsThe doctor knows that it is the prescription slip itself, even more than what is written on it, that is often the vital ingredient for enabling a patient to get rid of whatever is… ▶321DeathReflection
Norman CousinsIf news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation376Time
Norman CousinsHistory is an accumulation of error.343Truth
Norman CousinsIf something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. ✨ Norman Cousins (1974). The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortali… ▶365DeathLife
Norman CousinsEach patient carries his own doctor inside him. ✨ Norman Cousins (2016). Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration, p.27, Op… ▶377Reflection
Norman CousinsAt a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. Ninety-four, he said. You don't think I'd be doing anything as foolish as this … ▶344Thought
Norman CousinsGovernments are not built to perceive large truths. Only people can perceive great truths. Governments specialize in small and intermediate truths. They have to be instructed by t… ▶356HumanityPoliticsReading
Norman CousinsThe greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself - but that force in not independent of the belief system. Everything begins with belief. What … ▶301HumanityPolitics
Norman CousinsYou are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.323Love
Norman CousinsAll things are possible, once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake.368Humanity
Norman CousinsNixon's motto was, if two wrongs don't make a right, try three. ✨ 1979 In the Daily Telegraph, 17 Jul.379Life
Norman CousinsIt is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body.346Time
Norman CousinsThe only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.379Humanity
Norman CousinsLaughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions357HumorPolitics
Norman CousinsHe who keeps his cool best wins.313Reading
Norman CousinsEducation tends to be diagrammatic and categorical, opening up no sluices in the human imagination on the wonder of the beauty of our unique estate in the cosmos. Little wonder th… ▶3710HumanityPolitics
Norman CousinsWords have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care.3710Thought
Norman CousinsNever deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.337Politics
Norman CousinsThe need is not to amputate the ego ... but to transcend it. ✨ Norman Cousins (1974). The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinity, Harper San Francisco293DeathLife
Norman CousinsEducation fails unless the Three R's at one end of the school spectrum lead ultimately to the Four P's at the other-Preparati on for Earning, Preparation for Living, Preparation f… ▶3510Life
Norman CousinsDon't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.305Humor
Norman CousinsThe capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life.284HopeLifeTruth
Norman CousinsLaughter may or may not activate the endorphins or enhance respiration, as some medical researchers contend. What seems clear, however, is that laughter is an antidote to apprehen… ▶252Humor
Norman CousinsLaughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations. ✨ Norman Cousins (1989). Head … ▶297HopeHumanityHumor
Norman CousinsRespect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.253Life
