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.
BERNIE SIEGELI 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.’
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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Take one role model, as often as needed. Set aside a few minutes today to fill this prescription so you will have it handy when you need it. Think now about who your role models have been. What do they offer?
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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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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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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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No matter what the statistics say there is always a way.
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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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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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If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid.
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I love how Mother Theresa said she wouldn’t attend an anti-war rally but if there was a peace rally to call her. So I realized it’s not about waging a war against everybody’s disease and diagnosis but rather about helping them live.
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I grew up with sentiments such as, “Do what will make you happy, troubles are God’s redirections that something good will come from.
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You can find examples of how little we value ourselves everywhere you look. The signs on the front of the convenience stores where Stephen lives in Florida tell the story. Beer, ice, bread and milk are the big come-ons.
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The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.
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Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.
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The Secret Language of Your Body truly is the essential guide to restore your body to its healthiest state and assist you to heal your life.
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By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
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