Bernie Siegel

Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you…

— Bernie Siegel

Physicians need to be good technicians and know how to prescribe, but for healing to occur they also need to incorporate philosophy…

— Bernie Siegel

I had patients who didn't die because they had too many pets to try to find homes for. It's why women live…

— Bernie Siegel

Life is full of painful events, and people who have lost their way and hurt others. Our pain is not lessened when…

— Bernie Siegel

I have learned to become not an M.D. but a 'C.D.' for the wounded people I meet. Yes, a 'Chosen Dad' who…

— Bernie Siegel

God is in everyone and everything. When we save each other or guide each other or just love each other, we are…

— Bernie Siegel

Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child or patient to hear an authority…

— Bernie Siegel

Patients want to be seen as people. For me, the person's life comes first; the disease is simply one aspect of it,…

— Bernie Siegel

Every time I jog through the world, I am awed by what I find. On a winter morning, when it seems too…

— Bernie Siegel

We're all here for a limited amount of time, and life is difficult - not unfair, but difficult. The key is to…

— Bernie Siegel

It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education…

— Bernie Siegel

If you think about evolution, sleep, at some time, was a dangerous undertaking. You lie down in your cave or shelter, and…

— Bernie Siegel

I have always made a distinction between healing and curing. To me, 'healed' represents a condition of one's life; 'cured' relates strictly…

— Bernie Siegel

The tree doesn't die, nor do I when you cut off a branch or a finger, we both heal so we don't…

— Bernie Siegel

I am convinced that unconditional love is the most powerful known stimulant of the immune system. If I told patients to raise…

— Bernie Siegel

Feelings aroused by the touch of someones hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work…

— Bernie Siegel

I believe the reason we sleep is not just to allow our body to rest but that it is to allow this…

— Bernie Siegel

Part of my evolution has been to learn how painful most people's childhoods are. They grow up not liking themselves, not loving…

— Bernie Siegel

People have taught me what most doctors don't learn, in other words, when somebody does better than expected, the doctor will tell…

— Bernie Siegel

To me, God is an intelligent, loving, conscious energy and why do I say that? Well you need energy to create. You…

— Bernie Siegel

We participate and are responsible for a lot of the things that happen to us. If you hate your job, you are…

— Bernie Siegel

The question is not, will there be difficulties and threats to our existence, but how will we deal with them and what…

— Bernie Siegel

Money, financial matters were to help people, to help them survive, not to have a bigger house or a bigger car and…

— Bernie Siegel

If we had no hope - for a cure, for winning the lottery, for falling in love, for the end of war,…

— Bernie Siegel

What I learned was to live in my heart and to do what will make my happy, and that was not selfishness.…

— Bernie Siegel

What thoughts are so important that it is worth holding on to them even when they make you miserable? Why are you…

— Bernie Siegel

It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation. The…

— Bernie Siegel

I love how Mother Theresa said she wouldn't attend an anti-war rally but if there was a peace rally to call her.…

— Bernie Siegel

Today I am amazed at the things our children have done and their wide range of interests. They are all living their…

— Bernie Siegel

The mind and body are not separate units, but one integrated system. How we act and what we think, eat, and feel…

— Bernie Siegel

I always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team. When he was well into his…

— Bernie Siegel

Bobby and I were married in 1954 and by now we know that anger does not mean "I don't love you" or…

— Bernie Siegel

If you see what you do each day as your way of loving the world and helping it heal, then life gets…

— Bernie Siegel

You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn't try to be a tiger, and you shouldn't try to be something you…

— Bernie Siegel

By relaxation, I don't mean falling asleep in front of the TV set or unwinding with friends. The kind I'm talking about…

— Bernie Siegel

There is survival behavior, and doctors need to learn from patients who do not die when they are supposed to, instead of…

— Bernie Siegel

The inexplicable happens all the time. It makes more sense to simply accept things we observe but cannot understand. It is really…

— Bernie Siegel

I performed wound care or minor surgery, I would always apologize for any pain I was causing the animal and they would…

— Bernie Siegel

If I were rewriting 'Love, Medicine & Miracles,' I might consider changing its title to 'The Side Effects of Cancer.' Healing is…

— Bernie Siegel

I grew up caring about people and I would say again, that's what made me who I am. I became a doctor…

— Bernie Siegel