Not because I’m fascinated by the human body or want to understand death, but I like people and I want to help them. That also became my problem, because I couldn’t help everyone, I couldn’t fix everyone.
BERNIE SIEGELPeople have taught me what most doctors don’t learn, in other words, when somebody does better than expected, the doctor will tell them they’re doing very well and to keep it up.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.
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Live by your experience and do not let limited beliefs alter your life experience.
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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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Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though few of us will win Olympic gold medals or slay dragons, disease can be the spark or gift that allows many of us to live out our personal myths and become heroes.
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Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.
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When my body gets to the point where I can no longer function or feel gratitude, then I’ll leave it and become grateful again. But until then, I will appreciate what I have and not whine about what I don’t have,
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We have to create perfection through love
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Studies of volunteers have shown there is a benefit to performing acts of love for other people.
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Money, financial matters were to help people, to help them survive, not to have a bigger house or a bigger car and that sort of thing, because I hear that from so many kids, they often don’t know why their father won’t spend more time with them.
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By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
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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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Getting well is not the only goal. Even more important is learning to live without fear, to be at peace with life and ultimately death.
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A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying – but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.
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To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs.
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Don’t try to help people to ‘not die’, help them to enjoy life!
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If I told patients to raise their blood levels of immune globulins or killer T cells, no one would know how. But if I can teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same changes happen automatically. The truth is: love heals.
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Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
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Do things to make your day precious.
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Every time I jog through the world, I am awed by what I find. On a winter morning, when it seems too cold and slippery for safe jogging or bicycling, I can still go out and experience the glory of sunlight turning icy branches into strings of sparkling diamonds.
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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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There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people.
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Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.
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When we hate people who hurt us, we come to resemble what we hate, or worse, and then we suffer all the more. What is evil is our response. We have choices, and love is the most powerful eliminator of all.
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One’s attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.
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If you are used to fending entirely for yourself, then when a catastrophe occurs you will expend a lot of energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy for creative work.
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Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.
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