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.
BERNIE SIEGELMost of us never stop to consider our blessings; rather, we spend the day only thinking about our problems. But since you have to be alive to have problems, be grateful for the opportunity to have them.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.
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Don’t do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.
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When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.
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Our authority figures, particularly our parents are hypnotic. Their words are hypnotic literally to small children because of brain wave patterns.
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Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.
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Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.
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Animal intuitives can diagnose an animal’s physical health problems by listening to the animals.
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The order of the words varies, but beer and ice are always two of the top four staples for sale. If we were all taking care of ourselves, wouldn’t the convenience stores compete for our dollars with signs that read “Fruit, Vegetables, Bread, Milk”?
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Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.
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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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And that material things are to make the world a better place” and the latter came from my father because his father died of tuberculosis when he was twelve. They had no insurance, six kids and a hell of a time surviving.
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Sure, bad things can happen in the tonow. But when bad things happen to children, they show us the way again, because they know how to be in touch with their feelings and needs.
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I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
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I find new and healing images in that dark, silent place away from emotions that control me.
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Open your mind to all possibilities and believe!
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