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.
BERNIE SIEGELWhen guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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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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When you can’t change your life any other way, you can still change your attitude. When you do, your life changes. You find more chances to love, and you will be surprised to see how much more love is returned to you.
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The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.
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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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I would never have had if I’d been fool enough to make them do what I thought they should do.
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True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing.
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No matter what the statistics say there is always a way.
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Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.
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The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves
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Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.
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By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
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I am not talking about selfishness or self-interest. When I ask, What will make you happy?, I mean, What way of loving others feels right for you? Choose a way of loving that makes you happy, and your efforts will be play rather than work.
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I’ve learned to ask people, “You’re doing very well so what are you doing? Let me tell other people.” So what’s made me who I am, my experience.
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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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You still won’t be perfect, but success isn’t about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.
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