It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.
BERNIE SIEGELI 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.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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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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You can’t control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.
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Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.
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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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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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Information doesn’t mean a thing to people without inspiration.
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If I told patients to raise their blood levels of immune globulins or killer T cells, no one would know how. But if I can teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same changes happen automatically. The truth is: love heals.
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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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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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I heard that when I had grown up and had no idea of the whole story because the family album had pictures of a covered carriage and my mother smiling so I assumed I was asleep.
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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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When he was well into his eighties a friend found him in his office on Sunday, and asked him why, at his age, he was working on a Sunday. His response, ‘It’s only work if there’s someplace else you’d rather be.’
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If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid.
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Live by your experience and do not let limited beliefs alter your life experience.
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I find new and healing images in that dark, silent place away from emotions that control me.
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