Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities.
BERNIE SIEGELDoctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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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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Consciousness is non-local and does not depend on words to communicate.
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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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I had patients who didn’t die because they had too many pets to try to find homes for. It’s why women live longer than men with the same health problems.
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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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Miracles and angels are a part of our lives, so anticipate them and tune in through your quiet mind.
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Do not be afraid to close your eyes and be silent in prayer, meditation, rest or sleep. In those states you may rediscover a new self. Then your life, time and thoughts will become yours again and you can live your unique myth.
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Don’t do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.
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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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If I told patients to raise their blood levels of immune globulins or killer T cells, no one would know how. But if I can teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same changes happen automatically. The truth is: love heals.
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Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.
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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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There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people.
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Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That’s a tough thing to face.
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Those who look on the world with love will need a handkerchief, not to use as a blindfold, but to blow their nose and dry their tears.
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