Quote

By relaxation, I don't mean falling asleep in front of the TV set or unwinding with friends. The kind I'm talking about is a quieting of mental activity and withdrawal of body and mind from external stimulation.

Bernie Siegel

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bernie Siegel
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: October 14
Motivational Speaker
Physician
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Bernie Siegel
Bernard Siegel
Talking
Asleep
Fall
External
Body
Falling
Mean
Mental
Unwinding
Kind
Fronts
Quieting
Mind
Front
Stimulation
Activity
Withdrawal
Friends
Relaxation

More quotes by Bernie Siegel

Image
It's not about curing the disease, but healing the life then the physical benefits come.
Bernie Siegel
Image
Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor.
Bernie Siegel
Image
Feel your feelings. What you bring forth will save you.
Bernie Siegel
Image
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
Image
We are here to feel, wonder and gaze in awe at the world. Instead of just teaching our children how to use things and do things, I suggest we nourish their sense of wonder.
Bernie Siegel
Image
To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago but my experience altered my life and my beliefs.
Bernie Siegel
Image
No matter what the statistics say there is always a way.
Bernie Siegel
Image
For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.
Bernie Siegel
Image
If I can't find a cat, I stop and quiet my mind, not yelling the cat's name, and focus on connecting with the cat and then I get the message and go to that room or outside door and find the cat.
Bernie Siegel
Image
We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.
Bernie Siegel
Image
Don't try to help people to 'not die', help them to enjoy life!
Bernie Siegel
Image
True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing.
Bernie Siegel
Image
Traditional doctors say I'm a mystic. I don't deny it.
Bernie Siegel
Image
Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.
Bernie Siegel
Image
Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That's a tough thing to face.
Bernie Siegel
Image
People have taught me what most doctors don't learn, in other words, when somebody does better than expected, the doctor will tell them they're doing very well and to keep it up. I learned to say, You didn't die when you were supposed to so what's going on?, and they always had a story to tell me.
Bernie Siegel
Image
You can't control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.
Bernie Siegel
Image
There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people.
Bernie Siegel
Image
There's very little that shocks me because I consider life a miracle so I guess what shocks me is that life exists. How the hell did we get here? What shocks me is that bacteria alter their genes and resist antibiotics and viruses resist vaccines.
Bernie Siegel
Image
Do things to make your day precious.
Bernie Siegel