Steve Wambsganss

“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, Anatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient

“The tragedy of life is not death it is what we let die inside of us while we live.”
― Norman Cousins

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

“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