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“Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.”
― Bernie Siegel

“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.”
― Bernie Siegel M.D.

“Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.”
― Bernie S. Siegel, Love, Medicine and Miracles: Lessons Learned about Self-Healing from a Surgeon's Experience with Exceptional Patients

“Of course, we often think we have to get sick literally in order to get the rest or pleasure we need in our lives. Bobbie and I therefore taught our children when they were younger that if they needed a day off from school, they should just say that and take a health day, not a sick day. That made them look at life differently. I think all of us need to rethink our attitudes toward health and sickness.”
― Bernie S. Siegel, Peace, Love and Healing: Bodymind Communication & the Path to Self-Healing: An Exploration

“Science teaches that we must see in order to believe, but we must also believe in order to see.”
― Bernie Siegel, Love, Medicine & Miracles

“long-term survivors had poor relationships with their physicians—as judged by the physicians. They asked a lot of questions and expressed their emotions freely.”
― Bernie S. Siegel, Love, Medicine and Miracles: Lessons Learned about Self-Healing from a Surgeon's Experience with Exceptional Patients

“If a person deals with anger or despair when they first appear, illness need not occur. When we don’t deal with our emotional needs, we set ourselves up for physical illness.”
― Bernie S. Siegel, Love, Medicine and Miracles: Lessons Learned about Self-Healing from a Surgeon's Experience with Exceptional Patients

“Living is difficult but desirable,” and the immune system works to keep us alive. I therefore use two major tools to change the body”
― Bernie S. Siegel, Love, Medicine and Miracles: Lessons Learned about Self-Healing from a Surgeon's Experience with Exceptional Patients

“The greatest disease of mankind is a lack of love for children, leading to their psychological and sometimes even physical abuse, which predisposes those children to a hopeless-helpless attitude and to disease later in life. We cannot keep blaming physical poisons or genetic defects for every disease. We have to realize that there are social and psychosocial poisons in our own homes that predispose us to disease by creating certain attitudes and feelings within us.”
― Bernie Seigel

“Pidage meeles, et see, mis on ühele põlvkonnale ime, võib olla järgmisele teaduslik fakt.”
― Bernie S. Siegel, Love, Medicine & Miracles: Lessons Learned About Self-Healing From a Surgeon's Experience with Exceptional Patients

“Discovering the ways in which you are exceptional, the particular path you are meant to follow, is your business on this earth, whether you are afflicted or not.”
― Bernie Siegel, Recovering The Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing

“Gail Delaney’s Living Your Dreams, Ann Faraday’s The Dream Game, and Patricia Garfield’s Creative Dreaming. Jung’s”
― Bernie S. Siegel, Love, Medicine and Miracles: Lessons Learned about Self-Healing from a Surgeon's Experience with Exceptional Patients

“inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives. This period is almost always childhood, when our relations with our parents establish our characteristic ways of reacting to stress. As adults we repeat these reactions and make ourselves vulnerable to illness, and our personalities often determine the specific nature of the illnesses. The ability to love oneself, combined with the ability to love life, fully accepting that it won’t last forever, enables one to improve the quality of life. My role as a surgeon is to buy people time, during which they can heal themselves.”
― Bernie S. Siegel, Love, Medicine and Miracles: Lessons Learned about Self-Healing from a Surgeon's Experience with Exceptional Patients

“exceptional patient fights for responsibility but is punished for this act of survival because he represents a minority of the patients seen by the doctor.”
― Bernie S. Siegel, Love, Medicine and Miracles: Lessons Learned about Self-Healing from a Surgeon's Experience with Exceptional Patients

“When love is conditional we feel imperfect and unlovable.”
― Bernie Siegel MD

“Go ahead; embark on your journey now—walk the path of Goodness, Life, Law, and Reason.”
― Bernie S. Siegel, No Endings, Only Beginnings: A Doctor's Notes on Living, Loving, and Learning Who You Are

“can cure cancer”
― Bernie S. Siegel, Love, Medicine and Miracles: Lessons Learned about Self-Healing from a Surgeon's Experience with Exceptional Patients