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At that time, they grow up, stop feeling loved, become depressed and start thinking-and what they are thinking about worries me.

Bernie Siegel

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
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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Being Jobs Success Yourself
Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.
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Chemicals Cure Either
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
Whenever you get around to doing what you want to do, it will be now. The things you need to do to live a happier, more fulfilling life-the only time you can possible start doing them is now.
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Around Doing Happier Need Possible Start
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
Be grateful simply for being alive. When you are grateful for life, pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for. That may strike you as circular or even backward logic, but your attitude really does have an effect on how things work out.
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Attitude Changing Life Thanksgiving
Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities.
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Inspiration Inspire Meaningful
The words of love you hear, and the life you feel touching your body and soul, then you know you have discovered the great value of misfortune.
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Discover Great Know Love Misfortune Touching
I love how Mother Theresa said she wouldn’t attend an anti-war rally but if there was a peace rally to call her. So I realized it’s not about waging a war against everybody’s disease and diagnosis but rather about helping them live.
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Attend Disease Everbody Mother Peace Realized War
we are doing God’s work. So God dresses in Eskimo clothing or other disguises, and responds to us whether or not we are aware enough to hear, see, or feel God’s loving guidance. Everything is a tool of God, from DNA to the weather.
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Clothing Disguise God Guidance Loving Respond Work
Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.
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Challenges Opportunity Self
People have taught me what most doctors don’t learn, in other words, when somebody does better than expected, the doctor will tell them they’re doing very well and to keep it up.
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Doctors Expected People Somebody
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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Better Insurance Latter Tuberculosis Twelve
I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
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Doctors Healthy Reason School
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

At that time, they grow up, stop feeling loved, become depressed and start thinking-and what they are thinking about worries me.

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