Abraham Verghese Quotes

He who can believe himself well, will be well.

You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working in some indirect way, through feedback in the immune system, let us say, or in the willpower of the patient to take a more strenuous exercise in their own therapy.

A lot of healing is in the mind. I'm not talking about serious illnesses like cancer. I'm talking about ordinary broken bones. Healing begins in the head. You have to convince yourself you can do it.

The body has an enormous power of healing, if you really believe you are going to be healed, you're going to be healed. If you really believe you're going to die, you're going to die. If you apply this kind of method to everything, then there is hope.

If we focus on the minuses, we go down the spiral. But if we are able to focus on the pluses, we can become stronger and put more meaning into our life.

I have never been worried about the future. I will always be able to drive my own feet.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: It's that we often create what we anticipate.

I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.

Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negative person.

I'm one of those people who figures that it will eventually sort itself out.

If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Science of mind teaches you how to realize how much control you have over your own life. It teaches you that we have the ability to change our lives at any point we choose.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

I'm a damaged person, but I have hope and a will to not give up.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

There is just no getting around that turning bad things into good things is up to you.

The future is to heal back to the mind again. Recognizing that the mind is all powerful - it controls every cell to every degree of its genetic expression.

There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. There's a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope.

I don't believe in mistakes. Everything belongs, and, as the homies say, 'It's all good.'

The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.