I’m sure as an infant, no matter what I looked like, I felt like the most loved kid getting those massages. So I really think that was a big part of my growing and my brain developing.
BERNIE SIEGELWhen you can’t change your life any other way, you can still change your attitude. When you do, your life changes. You find more chances to love, and you will be surprised to see how much more love is returned to you.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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You too are a work of art.
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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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I see people who die a few minutes after a doctor tells them there is no hope of a cure. They give up and go. Others get angry and find joy in proving the doctor wrong. Something within them is challenged and hopeful. Hope is the divine motivator.
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In this view of the world, we spend the rest of our lives searching for wholeness and knowledge, wellness and health-the balance and harmony we lost when we were born.
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Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.
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If you see what you do each day as your way of loving the world and helping it heal, then life gets to be a lot different. The difference between burning up and burning out is the difference between loving what you are doing and not loving it.
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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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One’s attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.
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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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Information doesn’t mean a thing to people without inspiration.
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I 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.
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Traditional doctors say I’m a mystic. I don’t deny it.
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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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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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The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.
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