Norman Cousins Quotes

Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside.

Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.

One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.

If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.

I've been amazed at how quickly people can heal themselves, actually.

Your body has a remarkable capacity to begin healing itself, and much more quickly than people had once realized, if you simply stop doing what's causing the problem.

The patient must minister to himself

I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.

Healing comes from the healed; not from the physician.

A lot of healing is in the mind. I'm not talking about serious illnesses like cancer. I'm talking about ordinary broken bones. Healing begins in the head. You have to convince yourself you can do it.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

You can't be a victim and heal.

To heal from the inside out is the key.

The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.

One thing that has become abundantly clear to me as I have advocated for the health and well-being of girls and women over the years is the innate power we each have within us to establish deep connection with one another and heal ourselves simply by sharing our stories.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines we need.

No one can listen to your body for you... To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.

Smile with instinct, then lick your wounds in the darkest of dark corners. Trace the scars back to your own fingers and remember them.

When we, doctors, ask patients what their priorities are if time is short, what we do is we use what is available to us - whether it's geriatric care or palliative care or hospice care - to make sure they're living the kind of life that they want to live.

Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.

Know that all healing forces are within, not without! The applications from without are merely to create within a coordinating mental and spiritual force.

We... heal ourselves by giving others what we most need.

Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.

Heal yourselves, doctors; by God I live.