Do things to make your day precious.
BERNIE SIEGELThe doctor that acts out of love doesn’t burn out. He or she may get tired physically, but not emotionally.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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The Secret Language of Your Body truly is the essential guide to restore your body to its healthiest state and assist you to heal your life.
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To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I’m the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone.
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Love releases incredible energy that promotes the biochemistry of healing.
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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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I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
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Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though few of us will win Olympic gold medals or slay dragons, disease can be the spark or gift that allows many of us to live out our personal myths and become heroes.
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There’s very little that shocks me because I consider life a miracle so I guess what shocks me is that life exists. How the hell did we get here? What shocks me is that bacteria alter their genes and resist antibiotics and viruses resist vaccines.
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It’s not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.
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My view of addiction, whether it’s drugs, food, alcohol or any list of other things, is the same reason I asked my mother why I wasn’t a drug addict or alcoholic, which is because when you’re not loved.
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If you see what you do each day as your way of loving the world and helping it heal, then life gets to be a lot different. The difference between burning up and burning out is the difference between loving what you are doing and not loving it.
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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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Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.
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If our wholeness is interrupted, then our health suffers, and we need to find a way to restore our sense of meaning. When we move in the direction of that meaning, we’re healing.
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It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world.
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Getting well is not the only goal. Even more important is learning to live without fear, to be at peace with life and ultimately death.
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