If you are used to fending entirely for yourself, then when a catastrophe occurs you will expend a lot of energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy looking for help at a time when you need your energy for creative work.
BERNIE SIEGELIt is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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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.
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Love is giving with no expectations…Love cures, heals, and rewards two people: the lover and the beloved.
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Most of us never stop to consider our blessings; rather, we spend the day only thinking about our problems. But since you have to be alive to have problems, be grateful for the opportunity to have them.
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I always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team.
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Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby.
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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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If you love people, you’ll enjoy your life. If you don’t, you won’t love anything you do.
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Do not go looking for problems to feed your soul. Just let life be your teacher. It will nourish you with its inevitable difficulties.
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You can find examples of how little we value ourselves everywhere you look. The signs on the front of the convenience stores where Stephen lives in Florida tell the story. Beer, ice, bread and milk are the big come-ons.
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I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
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Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
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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.
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I truly feel the best doctors are ones who are criticized by nurses, patients and family. They do not make excuses and learn from their mistakes.
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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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One’s attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.
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