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Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.

Bernie Siegel

When he was well into his eighties a friend found him in his office on Sunday, and asked him why, at his age, he was working on a Sunday. His response, ‘It’s only work if there’s someplace else you’d rather be.’
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Age Ask Friend Response Sunday Working
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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Around Day Decide End Everybody Happy Later Two Year
Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant to the immune system.
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Best Love Powerful Unconditional
Open your mind to all possibilities and believe!
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Believe Mind Possibility
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
There’s very little that shocks me because I consider life a miracle so I guess what shocks me is that life exists. How the hell did we get here? What shocks me is that bacteria alter their genes and resist antibiotics and viruses resist vaccines.
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Consider Miracle Shocks Vaccines Viruses
Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though few of us will win Olympic gold medals or slay dragons, disease can be the spark or gift that allows many of us to live out our personal myths and become heroes.
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Disease Dragon Hero Offer Through Winning
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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Get Goal Important Learning Ultimate Well
The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves
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Faces Inability Love Patient
How will you know whether you are letting life teach you and nourish you? If your physical senses become more sensitive to the beauty you see.
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Beauty Life Nourish Physical See Sensitive Teach
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
It brought attention to my own feelings, and the realization that I never knew what the future would bring so to keep an optimistic view of it, because who knows what today’s events will bring.
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Attention Heart Make Selfishness Today
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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Important Searching Wisdom World
Traditional doctors say I’m a mystic. I don’t deny it.
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Deny Doctors Mystic
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
Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.
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Chemicals Cure Either

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