Traditional doctors say I’m a mystic. I don’t deny it.
BERNIE SIEGELThose 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.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities.
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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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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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When he was well into his eighties a friend found him in his office on Sunday, and asked him why, at his age, he was working on a Sunday. His response, ‘It’s only work if there’s someplace else you’d rather be.’
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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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Information doesn’t mean a thing to people without inspiration.
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Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.
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Often people become an addict and self destructive. Now the opposite of love is indifference and even worse is rejection and abuse, and I meet those people.
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The doctor that acts out of love doesn’t burn out. He or she may get tired physically, but not emotionally.
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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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Our Creator has given us five senses to help us survive threats from the external world, and a sixth sense, our healing system, to help us survive internal threats.
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Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.
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Every time I jog through the world, I am awed by what I find. On a winter morning, when it seems too cold and slippery for safe jogging or bicycling, I can still go out and experience the glory of sunlight turning icy branches into strings of sparkling diamonds.
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By relaxation, I don’t mean falling asleep in front of the TV set or unwinding with friends. The kind I’m talking about is a quieting of mental activity and withdrawal of body and mind from external stimulation.
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