Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.
BERNIE SIEGELDo not be afraid to love. Remember dear old Don Quixote, viewing the world with love. He saw many beautiful things no one else saw. Try being dear Don Quixote for a day.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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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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I see people who die a few minutes after a doctor tells them there is no hope of a cure. They give up and go. Others get angry and find joy in proving the doctor wrong. Something within them is challenged and hopeful. Hope is the divine motivator.
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Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.
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Traditional doctors say I’m a mystic. I don’t deny it.
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I always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team.
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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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Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.
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Not because I’m fascinated by the human body or want to understand death, but I like people and I want to help them. That also became my problem, because I couldn’t help everyone, I couldn’t fix everyone.
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I’ve learned to ask people, “You’re doing very well so what are you doing? Let me tell other people.” So what’s made me who I am, my experience.
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Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
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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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For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.
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It’s hard to carry a child around with you, but fortunately, in most cases, you don’t have to ask a child for directions if you have a well-chosen role model ready to guide you. This is the next prescription:
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By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
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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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