Bernie Siegel Quotes

Bernie Siegel is an American writer and retired pediatric surgeon. He is best known for his books on healing and the mind-body connection, focusing on the importance of self-care, positive thinking, and patient empowerment in the healing process. Bernie's work has had a significant impact on the field of holistic medicine and patient care.

I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our he... -Bernie Siegel

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

Bernie Siegel , Writer

The spiritual message is we lose our lives in pleasing others; if you're the good child who pleases Mommy and Daddy but internalizes anger, you're setting yourself up for disease.

Bernie Siegel , Writer

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.

Bernie Siegel , Writer

God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease.

Bernie Siegel , Writer

Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.

Bernie Siegel , Writer

Love and peace of mind do protect us. They allow us to overcome the problems that life hands us. They teach us to survive... to live now... to have the courage to confront each day.

Bernie Siegel , Writer

Society should see parenting as a public health issue and help parents to bring their children up feeling loved. We have birthing classes, but no parenting classes. The latter is desperately needed if we are to avoid self-destruction.

Bernie Siegel , Writer

The mind and body are not separate units, but one integrated system. How we act and what we think, eat, and feel are all related to our health. Physicians should be capable of teaching this behavior to patients.

Bernie Siegel , Writer

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