Bernie Siegel on graduation
Bernie Siegel143 quotes“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 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.
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel The words of love you hear, and the life you feel touching your body and soul, then you know you have discovered the great value of misfortune.
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel We have to create perfection through love
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people.
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel Open your mind to all possibilities and believe!
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one’s actions and deeds. Religion should be a path to God, not something to fight about.
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel 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.
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel It’s the consciousness that has come into us from other experiences and our consciousness that we remain aware of when we leave our bodies and they communicate with us through dreams, and even through drawings which I do a lot of work with myself.
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel 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.
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel Don’t do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel 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.
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy.
Bernie SiegelBernie Siegel As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient’s ability and desire to survive.
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I knew that when I left there at the age of 18, I wouldn’t be back. And it was common knowledge among all the people there that when you graduate from high school here, you go to college or go get a job or something and do it on your own.
Johnny CashJohnny Cash After graduating, I began auditioning for films while continuing to model. I did a few fashion shows, ad shoots, and even got a few Bollywood offers, but nothing great.
Kriti SanonKriti Sanon The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. SkinnerB. F. Skinner History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.
Kamala HarrisKamala Harris Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
Charles DarwinCharles Darwin People go to school and get educated, but most people who go to school and become a graduate in eduation still don’t know what the word ‘education’ means. ‘Educo’ means to bring out.
Peter ToshPeter Tosh Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.
John GreenJohn Green
