Bernie Siegel

Don't try to help people to 'not die', help them to enjoy life!

— Bernie Siegel

I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.

— Bernie Siegel

For me, consciousness is non-local, not limited to the body, and can exist independent of it.

— Bernie Siegel

Feel your feelings. What you bring forth will save you.

— Bernie Siegel

Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.

— Bernie Siegel

Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.

— Bernie Siegel

Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.

— Bernie Siegel

One's attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.

— Bernie Siegel

Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities. Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life…

— Bernie Siegel

We are here to feel, wonder and gaze in awe at the world. Instead of just teaching our children how to use…

— Bernie Siegel

I use music in the operating room to help create a healing environment for patients and staff. There is a reason that…

— Bernie Siegel

Mind-body medicine should not be an 'alternative,' nor should complementary and integrative medicine be something doctors are not exposed to during their…

— Bernie Siegel

Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That's a tough thing to face.

— Bernie Siegel

Compliments are the helium that fills everyone's balloon; they elevate the person receiving them so he or she can fly over life's…

— Bernie Siegel

We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.

— Bernie Siegel

As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability…

— Bernie Siegel

When you accept that you are not in charge of everything, you can begin to work with the one who really is…

— Bernie Siegel

You can survive tough situations and even turn them to your advantage by acting as if you are the person you want…

— Bernie Siegel

One of the best ways to change is to act as if you are the person you want to become. When you…

— Bernie Siegel

God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements.…

— Bernie Siegel

Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's…

— Bernie Siegel

When I experience something, I believe it. I almost choked to death when I was a four year old and had a…

— Bernie Siegel

My view of addiction, whether it's drugs, food, alcohol or any list of other things, is the same reason I asked my…

— Bernie Siegel

What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out.…

— Bernie Siegel

Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.

— Bernie Siegel

The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick

— Bernie Siegel

Animal intuitives can diagnose an animal's physical health problems by listening to the animals.

— Bernie Siegel

Live by your experience and do not let limited beliefs alter your life experience.

— Bernie Siegel

If you love people, you'll enjoy your life. If you don't, you won't love anything you do.

— Bernie Siegel

Life is a labor pain; we are here to give birth to ourself.

— Bernie Siegel

Love releases incredible energy that promotes the biochemistry of healing.

— Bernie Siegel

Miracles and angels are a part of our lives, so anticipate them and tune in through your quiet mind.

— Bernie Siegel

No matter what the statistics say there is always a way.

— Bernie Siegel

When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to…

— Bernie Siegel

I think some people do want to die, and they will get a disease. There are people who know their lives are…

— Bernie Siegel

One cannot get through life without pain...What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.

— Bernie Siegel

I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor's office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come…

— Bernie Siegel

I decided to become a surgeon named Bernie who writes books and gives seminars to teach people what he has learned and…

— Bernie Siegel

Getting well is not the only goal. Even more important is learning to live without fear, to be at peace with life…

— Bernie Siegel

The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of…

— Bernie Siegel