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Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor.

Bernie Siegel

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Bernie Siegel
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: October 14
Motivational Speaker
Physician
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Brooklyn
New York
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Several of our children have married outside my faith. Would I prefer they marry within their religion? Yes, because I know that marrying outside the family faith will very likely bring them more problems-but not from me. My job is to accept them and love them, not to criticize them and make their lives more difficult.
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You can't control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.
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I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
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Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.
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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.
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What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting.
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Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.
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Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.
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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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To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago but my experience altered my life and my beliefs.
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When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.
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