What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they’re going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn’t failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don’t keeping waiting.
BERNIE SIEGELNow 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.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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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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I learned to say, “You didn’t die when you were supposed to so what’s going on?”, and they always had a story to tell me.
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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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At the end of the day, she noticed that everybody around her was happy, too- so she didn’t quit after all. She decided to come to work happy instead. Two years later, she’s still on the job, radiating happiness and love.
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The words of love you hear, and the life you feel touching your body and soul, then you know you have discovered the great value of misfortune.
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Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.
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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 is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation.
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Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.
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Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant to the immune system.
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Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.
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Animal intuitives can diagnose an animal’s physical health problems by listening to the animals.
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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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What I learned was to live in my heart and to do what will make my happy, and that was not selfishness. It didn’t matter what job I took, my mother’s answer was, “Do what will make you happy.”
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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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