If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid.
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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Those who look on the world with love will need a handkerchief, not to use as a blindfold, but to blow their nose and dry their tears.
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Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.
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Money, financial matters were to help people, to help them survive, not to have a bigger house or a bigger car and that sort of thing, because I hear that from so many kids, they often don’t know why their father won’t spend more time with them.
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Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.
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Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That’s a tough thing to face.
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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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Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.
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Whenever you get around to doing what you want to do, it will be now. The things you need to do to live a happier, more fulfilling life-the only time you can possible start doing them is now.
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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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Anything that offers hope has the potential to heal.
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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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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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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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Live by your experience and do not let limited beliefs alter your life experience.
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Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.
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