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I once heard a man say he knew there was a God, he just didn’t think he needed Him. It is nice to take care of yourself and be independent, but it is also nice to know that you have a resource to rely on in times of need.

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
Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.
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Alive Life Meaning Meaningful
I believe consciousness is non-local and a big part of what we experience with near death and past lives.
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Believe Consciousness Dream Past
Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.
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Love Marriage Opportunity
It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.
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Contentment Life Love Mind
As one woman told me, “When I decided to come in to work happy, everybody around me became happy.” This woman had decided to quit a job she hated, and on the last day of her two weeks’ notice, she woke up happy.
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Happy Jobs Work Years
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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Indifference Meet Often People
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
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
Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities.
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Inspiration Inspire Meaningful
You can’t control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.
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Bring Control Order World
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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Amazed Giving Growing Hair Nausea
You still won’t be perfect, but success isn’t about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.
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Authentic Authenticity Perfect Success
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
God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all suffering will cease.
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Compassion Graduation Perfect Suffering Termination
Most of us never stop to consider our blessings; rather, we spend the day only thinking about our problems. But since you have to be alive to have problems, be grateful for the opportunity to have them.
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Blessing Grateful Opportunity

I once heard a man say he knew there was a God, he just didn’t think he needed Him. It is nice to take care of yourself and be independent, but it is also nice to know that you have a resource to rely on in times of need.

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I once heard a man say he knew there was a God, he just didn’t think he needed Him. It is nice to take care of yourself and be independent, but it is also nice to know that you have a resource to rely on in times of need.

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