Who else do you admire, and exactly what do you admire about them? Have your roster of role models ready and waiting to help you the next time you are perplexed.
BERNIE SIEGELGetting well is not the only goal. Even more important is learning to live without fear, to be at peace with life and ultimately death.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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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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You too are a work of art.
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When we hate people who hurt us, we come to resemble what we hate, or worse, and then we suffer all the more. What is evil is our response. We have choices, and love is the most powerful eliminator of all.
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Traditional doctors say I’m a mystic. I don’t deny it.
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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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The doctor that acts out of love doesn’t burn out. He or she may get tired physically, but not emotionally.
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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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Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.
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You can’t control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.
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I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor’s office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey – ‘Here’s the lady who brought the roses’ vs. ‘Here’s the lung cancer.’
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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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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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I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
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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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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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