Getting well is not the only goal. Even more important is learning to live without fear, to be at peace with life and ultimately death.
BERNIE SIEGELMedicine 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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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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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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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 you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can’t help but learn.
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An awareness of one’s mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
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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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Act as if you are the person you want to be.
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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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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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You can’t control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.
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We have to create perfection through love
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If you talk to your body, it will listen.
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If you love people, you’ll enjoy your life. If you don’t, you won’t love anything you do.
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If God came in and said, I want you to be happy for the rest of your life, what would you do?
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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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