Do not be afraid to love. Remember dear old Don Quixote, viewing the world with love. He saw many beautiful things no one else saw. Try being dear Don Quixote for a day.
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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Getting well is not the only goal. Even more important is learning to live without fear, to be at peace with life and ultimately death.
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Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant to the immune system.
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I would never have had if I’d been fool enough to make them do what I thought they should do.
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You too are a work of art.
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A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying – but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.
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As one woman told me, “When I decided to come in to work happy, everybody around me became happy.” This woman had decided to quit a job she hated, and on the last day of her two weeks’ notice, she woke up happy.
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Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.
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By relaxation, I don’t mean falling asleep in front of the TV set or unwinding with friends. The kind I’m talking about is a quieting of mental activity and withdrawal of body and mind from external stimulation.
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Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.
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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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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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The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.
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True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing.
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Feel your feelings. What you bring forth will save you.
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It brought attention to my own feelings, and the realization that I never knew what the future would bring so to keep an optimistic view of it, because who knows what today’s events will bring.
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