“Studies of volunteers have shown there is a benefit to performing acts of love for other people.”

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.

The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick

You are in charge of your thoughts and feelings. If you are willing to search for the reason that you can’t let go of disturbing thoughts, you can learn about yourself and restore your own peace of mind.

Feelings aroused by the touch of someones hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith – all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.

The doctor that acts out of love doesn’t burn out. He or she may get tired physically, but not emotionally.

Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.

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.

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.

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.’

I believe consciousness is non-local and a big part of what we experience with near death and past lives.

Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.

I believe that we are here to contribute love to the planet – each of us in our own way

At the end of the day, she noticed that everybody around her was happy, too- so she didn’t quit after all. She decided to come to work happy instead. Two years later, she’s still on the job, radiating happiness and love.

Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That’s a tough thing to face.

The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves

Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities.

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.

To the contrary, I’ve found that the happiest people have found some cause and they stride through life propelled by a commitment.

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.

It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do.

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy.

I’m still happy with the way Einstein’s Dreams came out. That book came out of a single inspiration. I really felt like I was not creating the words, that I was hearing the words.

I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.