The doctor that acts out of love doesn’t burn out. He or she may get tired physically, but not emotionally.
BERNIE SIEGELIf 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.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
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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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Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.
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You can see people draw the past, present and future as well as dream about it. You go to bed at night and have a dream that says there’s a lump in your right breast and the doctor who is foreign, with an accent tells you it’s cancer.
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God is in everyone and everything. When we save each other or guide each other or just love each other.
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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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Act as if you are the person you want to be.
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You can’t control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.
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You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn’t try to be a tiger, and you shouldn’t try to be something you aren’t. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature.
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If our wholeness is interrupted, then our health suffers, and we need to find a way to restore our sense of meaning. When we move in the direction of that meaning, we’re healing.
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If God came in and said, I want you to be happy for the rest of your life, what would you do?
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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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And that material things are to make the world a better place” and the latter came from my father because his father died of tuberculosis when he was twelve. They had no insurance, six kids and a hell of a time surviving.
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Information doesn’t mean a thing to people without inspiration.
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When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.
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