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.
BERNIE SIEGELEmbrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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Be grateful simply for being alive. When you are grateful for life, pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for. That may strike you as circular or even backward logic, but your attitude really does have an effect on how things work out.
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If I told patients to raise their blood levels of immune globulins or killer T cells, no one would know how. But if I can teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same changes happen automatically. The truth is: love heals.
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Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.
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Love is giving with no expectations…Love cures, heals, and rewards two people: the lover and the beloved.
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Anything that offers hope has the potential to heal.
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By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
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I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
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Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.
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Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.
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I had patients who didn’t die because they had too many pets to try to find homes for. It’s why women live longer than men with the same health problems.
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You are in charge of your thoughts and feelings. If you are willing to search for the reason that you can’t let go of disturbing thoughts, you can learn about yourself and restore your own peace of mind.
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Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.
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Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though few of us will win Olympic gold medals or slay dragons, disease can be the spark or gift that allows many of us to live out our personal myths and become heroes.
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Sure, bad things can happen in the tonow. But when bad things happen to children, they show us the way again, because they know how to be in touch with their feelings and needs.
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Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities.
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