93 Quotes by Bernie S. Siegel

What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they’re going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn’t failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don’t keeping waiting.

Compliments are the helium that fills everyone’s balloon; they elevate the person receiving them so he or she can fly over life’s troubles and land safely on the other side.

To me, God is an intelligent, loving, conscious energy and why do I say that? Well you need energy to create. You have to have a source. It’s undifferentiated energy which has intelligence or it couldn’t create.

So to me, what the drugs and addiction are saying is that I deserve to feel good, I’m allowed to take this because look how I was treated as a child. Our authority figures, particularly our parents are hypnotic. Their words are hypnotic literally to small children because of brain wave patterns.

What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: “Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example.” She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.

We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.

An awareness of one’s mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.

Getting well is not the only goal. Even more important is learning to live without fear, to be at peace with life and ultimately death.

The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick.