When you wake up and act like a loving person, you realize not only that you are altered, but that the people around you are also transformed, because everybody is changed by the reception of this love.
BERNIE SIEGELWho else do you admire, and exactly what do you admire about them? Have your roster of role models ready and waiting to help you the next time you are perplexed.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.
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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.
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Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.
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I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
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If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid.
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If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can’t help but learn.
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Do not be afraid to close your eyes and be silent in prayer, meditation, rest or sleep. In those states you may rediscover a new self. Then your life, time and thoughts will become yours again and you can live your unique myth.
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Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.
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When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.
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I’m sure as an infant, no matter what I looked like, I felt like the most loved kid getting those massages. So I really think that was a big part of my growing and my brain developing.
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I grew up with sentiments such as, “Do what will make you happy, troubles are God’s redirections that something good will come from.
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I performed wound care or minor surgery, I would always apologize for any pain I was causing the animal and they would lick my hand and not bite me out of anger due to the pain. They are also far more forgiving than people are of human beings and other animals.
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We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.
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The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.
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What thoughts are so important that it is worth holding on to them even when they make you miserable? Why are you holding on?
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