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.
BERNIE SIEGELAnd that material things are to make the world a better place” and the latter came from my father because his father died of tuberculosis when he was twelve. They had no insurance, six kids and a hell of a time surviving.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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One’s attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.
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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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Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.
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Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.
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Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.
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Who else do you admire, and exactly what do you admire about them? Have your roster of role models ready and waiting to help you the next time you are perplexed.
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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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Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one’s actions and deeds. Religion should be a path to God, not something to fight about.
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Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.
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I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
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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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Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.
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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 not be afraid to love. Remember dear old Don Quixote, viewing the world with love. He saw many beautiful things no one else saw. Try being dear Don Quixote for a day.
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You will notice at times that the new life isn’t what you asked for. But asking for specific items or for particular events to occur isn’t how I define prayer.
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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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Love releases incredible energy that promotes the biochemistry of healing.
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You can’t control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.
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The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick
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Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.
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At that time, they grow up, stop feeling loved, become depressed and start thinking-and what they are thinking about worries me.
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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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When you embrace the mystery and open yourself to it, a new life is created, resistant to the old problems.
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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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What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they’re going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn’t failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don’t keeping waiting.
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Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.
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