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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?

Bernie Siegel

Miracles and angels are a part of our lives, so anticipate them and tune in through your quiet mind.
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Angel Mind Miracle
What I learned was to live in my heart and to do what will make my happy, and that was not selfishness. It didn’t matter what job I took, my mother’s answer was, “Do what will make you happy.”
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Happy Heart Jobs Learn Mother Optimistic
As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient’s ability and desire to survive.
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Desire Doctors Our Words
To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I’m the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone.
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Anthropologist Anyone Giving Love People Something
Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.
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About Education Knowledge Survive Wisdom
Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.
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Behaviour Cry Different Sometimes
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
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
Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.
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Actions Day Each Enhanced Guided Meaningful
When 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.
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Attitude Chance Change Life Love Must Other Pure Simple
What if Jesus was the only normal person who ever lived?
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Ever Jesus Lived Normal
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
Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor.
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Doing Love Sooner Thinking You
When you accept that you are not in charge of everything, you can begin to work with the one who really is in charge. This has been my experience; when I accepted that I was not in charge and started to work with someone else’s plan, the Boss showed up.
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Acceptance Experience Show Start Team Wife
One’s attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.
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Attitude Healing Important
The words of love you hear, and the life you feel touching your body and soul, then you know you have discovered the great value of misfortune.
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Discover Great Know Love Misfortune Touching
Sure, bad things can happen in the tonow. But when bad things happen to children, they show us the way again, because they know how to be in touch with their feelings and needs.
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Feelings Happen Need Show Touch
The irony is that it is actually in your best interest to be selfless. The things you do for the benefit of others not only make you feel fulfilled, they increase your chances of living a long and happy life.
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Actually Chances Increase Interest
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
The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves
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Faces Inability Love Patient
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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Asleep Family Mother Picture Smiling Story
Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.
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Decision Hope Refusal
The order of the words varies, but beer and ice are always two of the top four staples for sale. If we were all taking care of ourselves, wouldn’t the convenience stores compete for our dollars with signs that read “Fruit, Vegetables, Bread, Milk”?
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Always Convenience Dollar Ourselves Stores Words
An awareness of one’s mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
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Awareness Meaningful Wake Up
The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.
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Great Immune System Tonic
I always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team.
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Football Sunday Team
I learned to say, “You didn’t die when you were supposed to so what’s going on?”, and they always had a story to tell me.
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Learn Presents Say Supposed Tell

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