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.
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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I cannot guarantee that the orders you place with God will always be filled. Prayer is not a test of God, but a call for help to find your inner strength and talent.
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In this view of the world, we spend the rest of our lives searching for wholeness and knowledge, wellness and health-the balance and harmony we lost when we were born.
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Sure, bad things can happen in the tonow. But when bad things happen to children, they show us the way again, because they know how to be in touch with their feelings and needs.
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What I learned was to live in my heart and to do what will make my happy, and that was not selfishness. It didn’t matter what job I took, my mother’s answer was, “Do what will make you happy.”
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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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If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid.
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My view of addiction, whether it’s drugs, food, alcohol or any list of other things, is the same reason I asked my mother why I wasn’t a drug addict or alcoholic, which is because when you’re not loved.
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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 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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I am convinced that unconditional love is the most powerful known stimulant of the immune system.
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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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Don’t try to help people to ‘not die’, help them to enjoy life!
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Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
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What thoughts are so important that it is worth holding on to them even when they make you miserable? Why are you holding on?
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God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all suffering will cease.
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