An awareness of one’s mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
BERNIE SIEGELThe Secret Language of Your Body truly is the essential guide to restore your body to its healthiest state and assist you to heal your life.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
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Remember this: Now is the only time you have. When God created the universe, it was now. You can’t say to creation and energy, “I’ll do it later, not now.” Later doesn’t exist. Creation doesn’t know anything but now.
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If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can’t help but learn.
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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.
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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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The doctor that acts out of love doesn’t burn out. He or she may get tired physically, but not emotionally.
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As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient’s ability and desire to survive.
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Take one role model, as often as needed. Set aside a few minutes today to fill this prescription so you will have it handy when you need it. Think now about who your role models have been. What do they offer?
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You’ll see that love improves your vision and allows you to see more than your eye has ever seen before. But be forewarned:
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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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Traditional doctors say I’m a mystic. I don’t deny it.
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Don’t try to help people to ‘not die’, help them to enjoy life!
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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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Studies of volunteers have shown there is a benefit to performing acts of love for other people.
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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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