If you are used to fending entirely for yourself, then when a catastrophe occurs you will expend a lot of energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy for creative work.
BERNIE SIEGELIf you love people, you’ll enjoy your life. If you don’t, you won’t love anything you do.
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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I believe consciousness is non-local and a big part of what we experience with near death and past lives.
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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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The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.
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Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
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True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing.
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What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they’re going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn’t failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don’t keeping waiting.
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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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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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It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.
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What if Jesus was the only normal person who ever lived?
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You will notice at times that the new life isn’t what you asked for. But asking for specific items or for particular events to occur isn’t how I define prayer.
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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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I cannot guarantee that the orders you place with God will always be filled. Prayer is not a test of God, but a call for help to find your inner strength and talent.
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Most of us never stop to consider our blessings; rather, we spend the day only thinking about our problems. But since you have to be alive to have problems, be grateful for the opportunity to have them.
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