Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That’s a tough thing to face.
BERNIE SIEGELIt 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.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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You can see people draw the past, present and future as well as dream about it. You go to bed at night and have a dream that says there’s a lump in your right breast and the doctor who is foreign, with an accent tells you it’s cancer.
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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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It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation.
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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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Take one role model, as often as needed. Set aside a few minutes today to fill this prescription so you will have it handy when you need it. Think now about who your role models have been. What do they offer?
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If I told patients to raise their blood levels of immune globulins or killer T cells, no one would know how. But if I can teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same changes happen automatically. The truth is: love heals.
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You too are a work of art.
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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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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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When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.
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Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.
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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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Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.
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There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people.
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It’s hard to carry a child around with you, but fortunately, in most cases, you don’t have to ask a child for directions if you have a well-chosen role model ready to guide you. This is the next prescription:
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