Bernie Siegel Quotes

I use my experience to comfort and support others for whom life has no hope.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.

Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.

With our love, we could save the world.

I hope people learn the power of vulnerability through my songs. I think vulnerability can save the world. Empathy helps people connect with each other.

Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.

Music is such a powerful tool, and there are so many people who need love and encouragement and hope.

Without imagination and without love, life can be pretty bleak. I think having both will get you through the most dire of situations.

Hope and encouragement, especially hope, is probably one of the greatest things you can give another person.

You breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live, when I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give. Dried the tears up from my dreams and pulled me from my hole, quenched my thirst and satisfied the burning in my soul.

A lovely face is the solace of wounded hearts and the key of locked-up gates.

I can't heal your pain but I can see it. And you don't have to be lost. Not forever.

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

Surgery has trained me better than anything else to connect with people.

The highest degree of a medicine is Love.

As we learn to share and give and care, love increases. A person who knows how to love does not seem to feel lonely or alone. In this sense, the power of love can become a true weapon against harm.

Each week I pack my bag and travel the country, I go to people who write me and tell me their problems. I appear whether at their house or at their job site or some neighborhood gathering. I come there and listen to their story and I get hands on as I say. I don t give advice, I give people hope, I build their self-esteem, I motivate 'em. I inspire them because that's what I do.

Let us be merciful in our mental judgments of our brothers and sisters, for, in truth, we are all one, and the more deeply they seem to err, the more urgent is the need for us to help them with the right thought, and so make it easier for them to get free.

Compassion doesn't weaken leadership, it makes it stronger.

Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless.

Enough of blood and tears. Enough!

In Community of Caring, we believe the quality of caring we give to our parents, to our brothers and sisters, to our families, to our friends and neighbors, and to the poor and the powerless endows a life, a community with respect, hope and happiness.