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We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.

Bernie Siegel

Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.
BERNIE SIEGEL

Decision Hope Refusal
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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Answer Chose Happy Loving Models
How will you know whether you are letting life teach you and nourish you? If your physical senses become more sensitive to the beauty you see.
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Beauty Life Nourish Physical See Sensitive Teach
Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.
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About Education Knowledge Survive Wisdom
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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Acceptance Inability Love
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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Always Convenience Dollar Ourselves Stores Words
When my body gets to the point where I can no longer function or feel gratitude, then I’ll leave it and become grateful again. But until then, I will appreciate what I have and not whine about what I don’t have,
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Blessed Function Grateful Gratitude Leave
A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying – but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.
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Discouraged People Sick Surgeon Wise
I see people who die a few minutes after a doctor tells them there is no hope of a cure. They give up and go. Others get angry and find joy in proving the doctor wrong. Something within them is challenged and hopeful. Hope is the divine motivator.
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Doctors Giving People Something Up
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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Authentic Authenticity Perfect Success
What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: “Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example.” She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.
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Failure Liner Stop Teacher Wife
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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Fall Mean Relaxation Talking Unwind
I heard that when I had grown up and had no idea of the whole story because the family album had pictures of a covered carriage and my mother smiling so I assumed I was asleep.
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Asleep Family Mother Picture Smiling Story
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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Five Healing Senses World
To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs.
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Altered Animal Communication People Say Years
For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.
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Day Gratitude Lovely Wake

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