If you see what you do each day as your way of loving the world and helping it heal, then life gets to be a lot different. The difference between burning up and burning out is the difference between loving what you are doing and not loving it.
BERNIE SIEGELAs doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient’s ability and desire to survive.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
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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.
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Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.
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The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.
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Studies of volunteers have shown there is a benefit to performing acts of love for other people.
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Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.
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The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves
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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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If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can’t help but learn.
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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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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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The order of the words varies, but beer and ice are always two of the top four staples for sale. If we were all taking care of ourselves, wouldn’t the convenience stores compete for our dollars with signs that read “Fruit, Vegetables, Bread, Milk”?
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If something controls you in a way that puzzles you, think of it as a mystery. Mysteries are best approached by closing your eyes and mouth to experience darkness and silence.
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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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There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people.
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