199 Quotes by Norman Cousins

The need is not to amputate the ego ... but to transcend it.

The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth.

History is an accumulation of error.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life.

He who keeps his cool best wins.

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 on for Earning, Preparation for Living, Preparation for Understanding, Preparation for Participation in the problems involved in the making of a better world.

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.

Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.