I love how Mother Theresa said she wouldn’t attend an anti-war rally but if there was a peace rally to call her. So I realized it’s not about waging a war against everybody’s disease and diagnosis but rather about helping them live.
BERNIE SIEGELThe #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.
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I would never have had if I’d been fool enough to make them do what I thought they should do.
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Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
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I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
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The words of love you hear, and the life you feel touching your body and soul, then you know you have discovered the great value of misfortune.
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I’m sure as an infant, no matter what I looked like, I felt like the most loved kid getting those massages. So I really think that was a big part of my growing and my brain developing.
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It’s not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.
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You still won’t be perfect, but success isn’t about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.
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For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.
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What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: “Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example.” She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.
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I had patients who didn’t die because they had too many pets to try to find homes for. It’s why women live longer than men with the same health problems.
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Feelings aroused by the touch of someones hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith – all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.
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An awareness of one’s mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
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The Secret Language of Your Body truly is the essential guide to restore your body to its healthiest state and assist you to heal your life.
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Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That’s a tough thing to face.
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