What thoughts are so important that it is worth holding on to them even when they make you miserable? Why are you holding on?
BERNIE SIEGELI would never have had if I’d been fool enough to make them do what I thought they should do.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
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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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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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The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick
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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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Often people become an addict and self destructive. Now the opposite of love is indifference and even worse is rejection and abuse, and I meet those people.
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The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.
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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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Do not go looking for problems to feed your soul. Just let life be your teacher. It will nourish you with its inevitable difficulties.
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To me, God is an intelligent, loving, conscious energy and why do I say that? Well you need energy to create. You have to have a source. It’s undifferentiated energy which has intelligence or it couldn’t create.
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I will feel blessed by life and the opportunity to help others see that they are blessed, too.
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We have to create perfection through love
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Love releases incredible energy that promotes the biochemistry of healing.
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Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.
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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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