93 Quotes by Bernie S. Siegel

Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant to the immune system.

You can’t control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.

You can see people draw the past, present and future as well as dream about it. You go to bed at night and have a dream that says there’s a lump in your right breast and the doctor who is foreign, with an accent tells you it’s cancer.

I see people who die a few minutes after a doctor tells them there is no hope of a cure. They give up and go. Others get angry and find joy in proving the doctor wrong. Something within them is challenged and hopeful. Hope is the divine motivator.

If you talk to your body, it will listen.

It’s not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.

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

For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.

It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation. The other great tonic for the immune system is love – loving ourselves as well as others.