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.
BERNIE SIEGELI heard that when I had grown up and had no idea of the whole story because the family album had pictures of a covered carriage and my mother smiling so I assumed I was asleep.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education in life from parents, teachers, and other authority figures who should know better from their experience. Information is about facts.
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What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: “Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example.” She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.
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Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.
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Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy.
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If God came in and said, I want you to be happy for the rest of your life, what would you do?
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Be grateful simply for being alive. When you are grateful for life, pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for. That may strike you as circular or even backward logic, but your attitude really does have an effect on how things work out.
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Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.
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What thoughts are so important that it is worth holding on to them even when they make you miserable? Why are you holding on?
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Do things to make your day precious.
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Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.
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Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.
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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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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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The doctor that acts out of love doesn’t burn out. He or she may get tired physically, but not emotionally.
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we are doing God’s work. So God dresses in Eskimo clothing or other disguises, and responds to us whether or not we are aware enough to hear, see, or feel God’s loving guidance. Everything is a tool of God, from DNA to the weather.
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