If you love people, you’ll enjoy your life. If you don’t, you won’t love anything you do.
BERNIE SIEGELWhen 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.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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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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When you can’t change your life any other way, you can still change your attitude. When you do, your life changes. You find more chances to love, and you will be surprised to see how much more love is returned to you.
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I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
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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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What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: “Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example.” She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.
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People have taught me what most doctors don’t learn, in other words, when somebody does better than expected, the doctor will tell them they’re doing very well and to keep it up.
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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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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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If you talk to your body, it will listen.
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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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Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.
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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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How will you know whether you are letting life teach you and nourish you? If your physical senses become more sensitive to the beauty you see.
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Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.
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For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.
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