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The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.

Bernie Siegel

To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs.
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Altered Animal Communication People Say Years
If you are used to fending entirely for yourself, then when a catastrophe occurs you will expend a lot of energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy for creative work.
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Energy Expand Looking Need Time
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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Asking Doing Learn People Tell
Don’t try to help people to ‘not die’, help them to enjoy life!
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Enjoy Life People Trying
For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.
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Day Gratitude Lovely Wake
Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.
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Actions Day Each Enhanced Guided Meaningful
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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Happy Heart Jobs Learn Mother Optimistic
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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Jogging Morning Winter
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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Firewarmed Improves Love Vision
Take one role model, as often as needed. Set aside a few minutes today to fill this prescription so you will have it handy when you need it. Think now about who your role models have been. What do they offer?
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Minute Model Needed Perception Role Think
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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Children Model Role Thinking
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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Authority Children Figure Particularly Pattern Way
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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Boys Bring Cancer Doctors Office
A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying – but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.
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Discouraged People Sick Surgeon Wise
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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Love Mother Opposite
By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
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Favors Intuition Limits
You too are a work of art.
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Art Esteem Self Works
When we hate people who hurt us, we come to resemble what we hate, or worse, and then we suffer all the more. What is evil is our response. We have choices, and love is the most powerful eliminator of all.
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Choice Hate Hurt Most Powerful Resemble Worse
Studies of volunteers have shown there is a benefit to performing acts of love for other people.
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Happy Life Long Two
I am convinced that unconditional love is the most powerful known stimulant of the immune system.
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Change Love Truth
I will feel blessed by life and the opportunity to help others see that they are blessed, too.
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Blessed Feel Oppurtunity Others
One’s attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.
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Attitude Healing Important
The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick
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Generally People Sick Simple
I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
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Doctors Healthy Reason School
You can’t control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.
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Bring Control Order World
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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Father Kids Redirection Sentiments World
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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Desire Doctors Our Words

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