A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying – but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.
BERNIE SIEGELDisease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though few of us will win Olympic gold medals or slay dragons, disease can be the spark or gift that allows many of us to live out our personal myths and become heroes.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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Feel your feelings. What you bring forth will save you.
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There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people.
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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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Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities.
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Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
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It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education in life from parents, teachers, and other authority figures who should know better from their experience. Information is about facts.
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Often people become an addict and self destructive. Now the opposite of love is indifference and even worse is rejection and abuse, and I meet those people.
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The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.
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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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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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The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick
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As one woman told me, “When I decided to come in to work happy, everybody around me became happy.” This woman had decided to quit a job she hated, and on the last day of her two weeks’ notice, she woke up happy.
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You too are a work of art.
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Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.
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You can’t control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.
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