Quotes by Bernie S. Siegel

“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 nee...”

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

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

“In the face of uncertainty there is nothing wrong with hope.”

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

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

“Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.”

“Don't do things to not die do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.”

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

“It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.”

“The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.”

“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.”

“In the face of uncertainty there is nothing wrong with hope.”

“Don't do things to not die do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.”

“The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.”