{"author":"Norman Cousins","author_id":"Norman+Cousins","total_quotes":52,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Norman Cousins","tags":["health","pain"],"id":1818,"author_id":"Norman+Cousins"},{"text":"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.","author":"Norman Cousins","tags":["agency","illness","meaning"],"id":76621,"author_id":"Norman+Cousins"},{"text":"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.","author":"Norman Cousins","tags":["compassion","indifference "],"id":94960,"author_id":"Norman+Cousins"},{"text":"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.","author":"Norman Cousins","tags":["health","pain"],"id":112769,"author_id":"Norman+Cousins"},{"text":"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.","author":"Norman Cousins","tags":["readers","reading","reading-books"],"id":123552,"author_id":"Norman+Cousins"},{"text":"A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.","author":"Norman Cousins","tags":["books","library"],"id":134112,"author_id":"Norman+Cousins"},{"text":"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.","author":"Norman Cousins","tags":["eye","men","moon "],"id":142320,"author_id":"Norman+Cousins"},{"text":"The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.","author":"Norman Cousins","tags":["war"],"id":146796,"author_id":"Norman+Cousins"},{"text":"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.","author":"Norman Cousins","tags":["positive"],"id":148668,"author_id":"Norman+Cousins"},{"text":"Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.","author":"Norman Cousins","tags":["doctors","health","illness"],"id":153676,"author_id":"Norman+Cousins"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":52,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}