You can’t control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.
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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It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education in life from parents, teachers, and other authority figures who should know better from their experience. Information is about facts.
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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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Do things to make your day precious.
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Act as if you are the person you want to be.
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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.
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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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For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.
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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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We are here to feel, wonder and gaze in awe at the world. Instead of just teaching our children how to use things and do things, I suggest we nourish their sense of wonder.
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Love is giving with no expectations…Love cures, heals, and rewards two people: the lover and the beloved.
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I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
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Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.
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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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People have taught me what most doctors don’t learn, in other words, when somebody does better than expected, the doctor will tell them they’re doing very well and to keep it up.
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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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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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I will feel blessed by life and the opportunity to help others see that they are blessed, too.
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One’s attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.
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I performed wound care or minor surgery, I would always apologize for any pain I was causing the animal and they would lick my hand and not bite me out of anger due to the pain. They are also far more forgiving than people are of human beings and other animals.
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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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No matter what the statistics say there is always a way.
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Our authority figures, particularly our parents are hypnotic. Their words are hypnotic literally to small children because of brain wave patterns.
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Live by your experience and do not let limited beliefs alter your life experience.
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Now we are a team and I have less to be concerned about. He organizes my schedule. I just follow it, and when He is taking a day off my wife steps in.
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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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Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.
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