Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
BERNIE SIEGELIf 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.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.
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Often 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.
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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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I had patients who didn’t die because they had too many pets to try to find homes for. It’s why women live longer than men with the same health problems.
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Not 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.
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Feel your feelings. What you bring forth will save you.
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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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Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.
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Don’t try to help people to ‘not die’, help them to enjoy life!
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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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Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.
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Feelings aroused by the touch of someones hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith – all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.
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No matter what the statistics say there is always a way.
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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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At that time, they grow up, stop feeling loved, become depressed and start thinking-and what they are thinking about worries me.
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