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Norman Cousins Quotes

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Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood  (Norman Cousins Quotes) A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences  (Norman Cousins Quotes) The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession  (Norman Cousins Quotes) Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system  (Norman Cousins Quotes) A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences  (Norman Cousins Quotes) The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one’s one devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life  (Norman Cousins Quotes) We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America  (Norman Cousins Quotes) Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bullet-proof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that can assault you in disease  (Norman Cousins Quotes) The 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 we believe is the most powerful option of all  (Norman Cousins Quotes) I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth  (Norman Cousins Quotes) The present mode of life on earth is madness, which is nontheless lethal for being legal. Rational existence is possible, but it calls for a world consciousness and a world design. People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time  (Norman Cousins Quotes) Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right to disassociate without penalty. Belief or nonbelief was a matter of individual choice - a right underwritten in the basic charter of the nation’s liberties  (Norman Cousins Quotes) The essence of man is imperfection. Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success. If we learn to embrace that new definition of failure, then we are free to start moving ahead - and failing forward  (Norman Cousins Quotes) It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today’s world.  (Norman Cousins Quotes) The physician’s ability to reassure the patient is a major factor in activating the body’s own healing system.  (Norman Cousins Quotes) The physician knows that his little black bag can carry him only so far and that the body’s own healing system is the main resource.  (Norman Cousins Quotes) Pain 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 Quotes) A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure  (Norman Cousins Quotes) An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person.  (Norman Cousins Quotes) Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life  (Norman Cousins Quotes) Life is an adventure in forgiveness  (Norman Cousins Quotes) Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country  (Norman Cousins Quotes) Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is  (Norman Cousins Quotes) What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the Earth  (Norman Cousins Quotes) The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness  (Norman Cousins Quotes) The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is a gain  (Norman Cousins Quotes) The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war  (Norman Cousins Quotes) The physician knows that his little black bag can carry him only so far and that the body’s own healing system is the main resource  (Norman Cousins Quotes) Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man  (Norman Cousins Quotes) The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started  (Norman Cousins Quotes)
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