Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
BERNIE SIEGELOften people become an addict and self destructive. Now the opposite of love is indifference and even worse is rejection and abuse, and I meet those people.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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Feel your feelings. What you bring forth will save you.
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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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The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.
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An awareness of one’s mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
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When my body gets to the point where I can no longer function or feel gratitude, then I’ll leave it and become grateful again. But until then, I will appreciate what I have and not whine about what I don’t have,
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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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I love how Mother Theresa said she wouldn’t attend an anti-war rally but if there was a peace rally to call her. So I realized it’s not about waging a war against everybody’s disease and diagnosis but rather about helping them live.
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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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Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.
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God is in everyone and everything. When we save each other or guide each other or just love each other.
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When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.
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I will feel blessed by life and the opportunity to help others see that they are blessed, too.
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Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.
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Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.
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I heard that when I had grown up and had no idea of the whole story because the family album had pictures of a covered carriage and my mother smiling so I assumed I was asleep.
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