I cannot guarantee that the orders you place with God will always be filled. Prayer is not a test of God, but a call for help to find your inner strength and talent.
BERNIE SIEGELMost of us never stop to consider our blessings; rather, we spend the day only thinking about our problems. But since you have to be alive to have problems, be grateful for the opportunity to have them.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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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.
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If something controls you in a way that puzzles you, think of it as a mystery. Mysteries are best approached by closing your eyes and mouth to experience darkness and silence.
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God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all suffering will cease.
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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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I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor’s office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey – ‘Here’s the lady who brought the roses’ vs. ‘Here’s the lung cancer.’
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Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.
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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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One’s attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.
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It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.
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I learned to say, “You didn’t die when you were supposed to so what’s going on?”, and they always had a story to tell me.
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The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.
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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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Live by your experience and do not let limited beliefs alter your life experience.
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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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Studies of volunteers have shown there is a benefit to performing acts of love for other people.
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