When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.
BERNIE SIEGELWhat 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.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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Love is giving with no expectations…Love cures, heals, and rewards two people: the lover and the beloved.
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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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Our Creator has given us five senses to help us survive threats from the external world, and a sixth sense, our healing system, to help us survive internal threats.
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It’s the consciousness that has come into us from other experiences and our consciousness that we remain aware of when we leave our bodies and they communicate with us through dreams, and even through drawings which I do a lot of work with myself.
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No matter what the statistics say there is always a way.
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I always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team.
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I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
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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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Live by your experience and do not let limited beliefs alter your life experience.
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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 you love people, you’ll enjoy your life. If you don’t, you won’t love anything you do.
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Animal intuitives can diagnose an animal’s physical health problems by listening to the animals.
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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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Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant to the immune system.
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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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When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.
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Now we are a team and I have less to be concerned about. He organizes my schedule. I just follow it, and when He is taking a day off my wife steps in.
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Getting well is not the only goal. Even more important is learning to live without fear, to be at peace with life and ultimately death.
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As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient’s ability and desire to survive.
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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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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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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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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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When you can’t change your life any other way, you can still change your attitude. When you do, your life changes. You find more chances to love, and you will be surprised to see how much more love is returned to you.
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It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world.
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I would never have had if I’d been fool enough to make them do what I thought they should do.
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