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.
BERNIE SIEGELTo me, God is an intelligent, loving, conscious energy and why do I say that? Well you need energy to create. You have to have a source. It’s undifferentiated energy which has intelligence or it couldn’t create.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.
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Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy.
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I believe that we are here to contribute love to the planet – each of us in our own way
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For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.
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Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.
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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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Be grateful simply for being alive. When you are grateful for life, pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for. That may strike you as circular or even backward logic, but your attitude really does have an effect on how things work out.
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If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can’t help but learn.
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Whenever you get around to doing what you want to do, it will be now. The things you need to do to live a happier, more fulfilling life-the only time you can possible start doing them is now.
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The irony is that it is actually in your best interest to be selfless. The things you do for the benefit of others not only make you feel fulfilled, they increase your chances of living a long and happy life.
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Love releases incredible energy that promotes the biochemistry of healing.
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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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Every time I jog through the world, I am awed by what I find. On a winter morning, when it seems too cold and slippery for safe jogging or bicycling, I can still go out and experience the glory of sunlight turning icy branches into strings of sparkling diamonds.
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If you talk to your body, it will listen.
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Feel your feelings. What you bring forth will save you.
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