I believe that we are here to contribute love to the planet – each of us in our own way
BERNIE SIEGELFeelings 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.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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God is in everyone and everything. When we save each other or guide each other or just love each other.
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It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world.
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Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy.
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It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.
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What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they’re going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn’t failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don’t keeping waiting.
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You will notice at times that the new life isn’t what you asked for. But asking for specific items or for particular events to occur isn’t how I define prayer.
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Live by your experience and do not let limited beliefs alter your life experience.
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I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
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Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.
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Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.
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The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick
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I learned to say, “You didn’t die when you were supposed to so what’s going on?”, and they always had a story to tell me.
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No matter what the statistics say there is always a way.
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As one woman told me, “When I decided to come in to work happy, everybody around me became happy.” This woman had decided to quit a job she hated, and on the last day of her two weeks’ notice, she woke up happy.
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The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.
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