Those who look on the world with love will need a handkerchief, not to use as a blindfold, but to blow their nose and dry their tears.
BERNIE SIEGELI performed wound care or minor surgery, I would always apologize for any pain I was causing the animal and they would lick my hand and not bite me out of anger due to the pain. They are also far more forgiving than people are of human beings and other animals.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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No matter what the statistics say there is always a way.
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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 simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick
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To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs.
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God is in everyone and everything. When we save each other or guide each other or just love each other.
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We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.
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By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
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Act as if you are the person you want to be.
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Getting well is not the only goal. Even more important is learning to live without fear, to be at peace with life and ultimately death.
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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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Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.
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I would never have had if I’d been fool enough to make them do what I thought they should do.
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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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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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As one woman told me, “When I decided to come in to work happy, everybody around me became happy.” This woman had decided to quit a job she hated, and on the last day of her two weeks’ notice, she woke up happy.
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