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The way a book is read- which is to say,the qualities a reader brings to a book- can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.

~ Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins Readers Reading Reading Books

If ignorance about the nature of pain is widespread, ignorance about the way pain-killing drugs is even more so. What is not generally understood is that many of the vaunted pain-killing drugs conceal the pain without correcting the underlying condition. They deaden the mechanism in the body that alerts the brain to the fact that something may be wrong. The body can pay a high price for suppression of pain without regard to its basic cause.

~ Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins Health Pain

Illness is always an interaction between [mind and body]. It can begin in the mind and affect the body, or it can begin in the body and affect the mind, both of which are served by the same bloodstream. Attempts to treat most mental diseases as though they were completely free of physical causes and attempts to treat most bodily diseases as though the mind were in no way involved must be considered archaic in the light of new evidence about the way the human body functions.

~ Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins Healing Health Mental Illness Pain

Suppose I stopped taking aspirin and phenylbutazone? What about the pain? The bones in my spine and practically every joint in my body felt as though I had been run over by a truck. I knew that pain could be affected by attitudes. Most people become panicky about almost any pain. On all sides they have been so bombarded with advertisements about pain that they take this or that analgesic at the slightest sign of an ache. We are largely illiterate about pain and so are seldom able to deal with it rationally. Pain is part of the body's magic. It is the way the body transmits a sign to the body that something is wrong.

~ Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins Health Pain

Time is the one thing that patients need most from their doctors--time to be heard, time to have things explained, time to reassured, time to be introduced by the doctor personally to specialists or other attendants whose very existence seems to reflect something new and threatening. yet the one thing that too many doctors find most difficult to command or manage is time.

~ Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins Health Pain

People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.

~ Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins Citizens Of The World Earth Life Sanity World

Not every illness can be overcome. But many people allow illness to disfigure their lives more than it should. They cave in needlessly. They ignore and weaken whatever powers they have for standing erect. There is always a margin within which life can be lived with meaning and even with a certain measure of joy, despite illness.

~ Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins Agency Illness Meaning

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.

~ Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins Doctors Health Illness

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 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.— Cited in ALA Bulletin, Oct. 1954, p.475

~ Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins Book Libraries Life Worship

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

~ Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins Books Library

Death is not the enemy living in constant fear of it is.

~ Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins Anxiety About Future

The most costly disease is not cancer or coronaries. The most costly disease is boredom - costly for both individual and society.

~ Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins Bores Boredom

History is a vast early warning system.

~ Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins History Historians

Don't defy the diagnosis try to defy the verdict.

~ Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins Medicine Sickness

Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and forboding.

~ Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins Medicine Sickness

It is nonsense to say there is not enough time to be fully informed. ... Time given to thought is the greatest timesaver of all.

~ Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins One Day

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

~ Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins Today Government Partner

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

~ Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins Powerful Medical Body

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

Norman Cousins Life Destination Energy

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

~ Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins Logic Independent

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

~ Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins Life Man Educated

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

~ Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins People Never Expense

He who keeps his cool best wins.

~ Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins Best Wins He

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

Norman Cousins Eye Men Moon

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

~ Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins Education Words Idea

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

~ Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins Life Sad Tragedy

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

~ Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins Optimism Facts Wait

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

~ Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins Health Laughter Outdoors

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

~ Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins Health Science Healing

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

~ Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins Compassion Indifference

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

~ Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins Reason Nourishes

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

~ Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins Life Adventure

Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.

~ Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins Live Gun Will

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

~ Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins Consequences Anticipation
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