Information doesn’t mean a thing to people without inspiration.
BERNIE SIEGELNot because I’m fascinated by the human body or want to understand death, but I like people and I want to help them. That also became my problem, because I couldn’t help everyone, I couldn’t fix everyone.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick
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Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
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Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.
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By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
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Do not go looking for problems to feed your soul. Just let life be your teacher. It will nourish you with its inevitable difficulties.
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Love releases incredible energy that promotes the biochemistry of healing.
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Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.
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Money, financial matters were to help people, to help them survive, not to have a bigger house or a bigger car and that sort of thing, because I hear that from so many kids, they often don’t know why their father won’t spend more time with them.
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When he was well into his eighties a friend found him in his office on Sunday, and asked him why, at his age, he was working on a Sunday. His response, ‘It’s only work if there’s someplace else you’d rather be.’
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I always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team.
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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.
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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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If God came in and said, I want you to be happy for the rest of your life, what would you do?
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I see people who die a few minutes after a doctor tells them there is no hope of a cure. They give up and go. Others get angry and find joy in proving the doctor wrong. Something within them is challenged and hopeful. Hope is the divine motivator.
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In this view of the world, we spend the rest of our lives searching for wholeness and knowledge, wellness and health-the balance and harmony we lost when we were born.
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