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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.”

Bernie Siegel

Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy.
BERNIE SIEGEL

Amazed Giving Growing Hair Nausea
There’s very little that shocks me because I consider life a miracle so I guess what shocks me is that life exists. How the hell did we get here? What shocks me is that bacteria alter their genes and resist antibiotics and viruses resist vaccines.
BERNIE SIEGEL

Consider Miracle Shocks Vaccines Viruses
Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.
BERNIE SIEGEL

Actions Day Each Enhanced Guided Meaningful
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 SIEGEL

Learn Presents Say Supposed Tell
Love is giving with no expectations…Love cures, heals, and rewards two people: the lover and the beloved.
BERNIE SIEGEL

Cures Expectations Love People Two
Studies of volunteers have shown there is a benefit to performing acts of love for other people.
BERNIE SIEGEL

Happy Life Long Two
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.
BERNIE SIEGEL

Being Jobs Success Yourself
We have to create perfection through love
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Create Love Perfection
Every time I jog through the world, I am awed by what I find. On a winter morning, when it seems too cold and slippery for safe jogging or bicycling, I can still go out and experience the glory of sunlight turning icy branches into strings of sparkling diamonds.
BERNIE SIEGEL

Jogging Morning Winter
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.’
BERNIE SIEGEL

Age Ask Friend Response Sunday Working
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 SIEGEL

Around Day Decide End Everybody Happy Later Two Year
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.’
BERNIE SIEGEL

Boys Bring Cancer Doctors Office
When you embrace the mystery and open yourself to it, a new life is created, resistant to the old problems.
BERNIE SIEGEL

Guarantees Order Prayer Problems
Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That’s a tough thing to face.
BERNIE SIEGEL

Faces Mean Medicine
Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.
BERNIE SIEGEL

Challenges Opportunity Self
If I told patients to raise their blood levels of immune globulins or killer T cells, no one would know how. But if I can teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same changes happen automatically. The truth is: love heals.
BERNIE SIEGEL

Changes Globulin Happen Kill Killer Patient Themselves

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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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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