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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.

Bernie Siegel

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
Money, financial matters were to help people, to help them survive, not to have a bigger house or a bigger car and that sort of thing, because I hear that from so many kids, they often don’t know why their father won’t spend more time with them.
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Car Father Financial House Kids Matters Survive
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 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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Boys Bring Cancer Doctors Office
For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.
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Day Gratitude Lovely Wake
Not because I’m fascinated by the human body or want to understand death, but I like people and I want to help them. That also became my problem, because I couldn’t help everyone, I couldn’t fix everyone.
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Death Everyone Fascinated People Problem Understand
Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.
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Hope Mean Possible Want Working
we are doing God’s work. So God dresses in Eskimo clothing or other disguises, and responds to us whether or not we are aware enough to hear, see, or feel God’s loving guidance. Everything is a tool of God, from DNA to the weather.
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Clothing Disguise God Guidance Loving Respond Work
It’s the consciousness that has come into us from other experiences and our consciousness that we remain aware of when we leave our bodies and they communicate with us through dreams, and even through drawings which I do a lot of work with myself.
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Bodies Communicate Consciousness Experience Remain
Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.
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Behaviour Cry Different Sometimes
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.
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Love Mother Opposite
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
When you wake up and act like a loving person, you realize not only that you are altered, but that the people around you are also transformed, because everybody is changed by the reception of this love.
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Altered Change Loving Person Reception
Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.
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Decision Hope Refusal
A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying – but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.
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Discouraged People Sick Surgeon Wise
You’ll see that love improves your vision and allows you to see more than your eye has ever seen before. But be forewarned:
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Firewarmed Improves Love Vision

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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