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.
BERNIE SIEGELThe fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.
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 you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can’t help but learn.
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If none of your role models provide the answer, then it is time to go within and ask yourself, “What would make me happy?” In other words, let your feelings guide you. This doesn’t work well if you focus narrowly on your personal needs.
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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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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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Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.
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What I learned was to live in my heart and to do what will make my happy, and that was not selfishness. It didn’t matter what job I took, my mother’s answer was, “Do what will make you happy.”
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The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.
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Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities.
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Don’t try to help people to ‘not die’, help them to enjoy life!
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Don’t do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.
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If you talk to your body, it will listen.
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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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And that material things are to make the world a better place” and the latter came from my father because his father died of tuberculosis when he was twelve. They had no insurance, six kids and a hell of a time surviving.
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Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.
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