If you love people, you’ll enjoy your life. If you don’t, you won’t love anything you do.
BERNIE SIEGELThe 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.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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It brought attention to my own feelings, and the realization that I never knew what the future would bring so to keep an optimistic view of it, because who knows what today’s events will bring.
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You can find examples of how little we value ourselves everywhere you look. The signs on the front of the convenience stores where Stephen lives in Florida tell the story. Beer, ice, bread and milk are the big come-ons.
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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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You’ll see that love improves your vision and allows you to see more than your eye has ever seen before. But be forewarned:
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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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It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.
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The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.
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When you embrace the mystery and open yourself to it, a new life is created, resistant to the old problems.
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And that material things are to make the world a better place” and the latter came from my father because his father died of tuberculosis when he was twelve. They had no insurance, six kids and a hell of a time surviving.
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When you wake up and act like a loving person, you realize not only that you are altered, but that the people around you are also transformed, because everybody is changed by the reception of this love.
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Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.
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Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.
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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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You can’t control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.
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There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people.
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Do not be afraid to close your eyes and be silent in prayer, meditation, rest or sleep. In those states you may rediscover a new self. Then your life, time and thoughts will become yours again and you can live your unique myth.
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When you accept that you are not in charge of everything, you can begin to work with the one who really is in charge. This has been my experience; when I accepted that I was not in charge and started to work with someone else’s plan, the Boss showed up.
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Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.
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Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.
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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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Remember that an act of love always benefits at least two people.
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You still won’t be perfect, but success isn’t about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.
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Don’t try to help people to ‘not die’, help them to enjoy life!
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The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick
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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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Animal intuitives can diagnose an animal’s physical health problems by listening to the animals.
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