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Don't try to help people to 'not die', help them to enjoy life!

Bernie Siegel

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Bernie Siegel
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: October 14
Motivational Speaker
Physician
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Bernie Siegel
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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.
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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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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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Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.
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Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.
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Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors.
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When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.
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God is in everyone and everything. When we save each other or guide each other or just love each other, 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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God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all suffering will cease.
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Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That's a tough thing to face.
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If you see what you do each day as your way of loving the world and helping it heal, then life gets to be a lot different. The difference between burning up and burning out is the difference between loving what you are doing and not loving it.
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Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant to the immune system.
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Do things to make your day precious.
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Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.
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The tree doesn't die, nor do I when you cut off a branch or a finger, we both heal so we don't lose all the sap or blood. That to me is total shock. Also that water defies the laws of physics by becoming less dense when frozen. Life really is a miracle and all the things that are been built into us through it.
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Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.
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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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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. 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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To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago but my experience altered my life and my beliefs.
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It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.
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