13 Quotes & Sayings By Bernie S Siegel

Bernie S. Siegel, MD, FACS, is the author of thirty-five books on psychosomatic medicine, including Love, Medicine and Miracles, which has sold more than two million copies. Dr. Siegel is also the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Love, Medicine and Miracles: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Healing and the Wisdom of Cells, which has sold more than 750,000 copies Read more

Dr. Siegel is a practicing physician in New York City for over four decades. He is also an internationally renowned teacher of meditation and related disciplines.

Dr. Siegel started his medical career at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx where he was chief resident in surgery for three years before resuming his studies at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He interned at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City during his medical school years, then served as Chief Resident at Mount Sinai Hospital while completing his residency training at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center.

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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
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Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation. Bernie S. Siegel
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One cannot get through life without pain.... What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us. Bernie S. Siegel
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In the face of uncertainty there is nothing wrong with hope. Bernie S. Siegel
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One cannot get through life without pain.... What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us. Bernie S. Siegel
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The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick. Bernie S. Siegel
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Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die. Bernie S. Siegel
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Don't do things to not die do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying. Bernie S. Siegel
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Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides the job is taken. Bernie S. Siegel
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It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life. Bernie S. Siegel
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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. Bernie S. Siegel
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Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way. Bernie S. Siegel