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Bernie Siegel

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Bernie Siegel
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: October 14
Motivational Speaker
Physician
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
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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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I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.
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I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor's office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey - 'Here's the lady who brought the roses' vs. 'Here's the lung cancer.'
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For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.
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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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Love is giving with no expectations...Love cures, heals, and rewards two people: the lover and the beloved.
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Love releases incredible energy that promotes the biochemistry of healing.
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By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.
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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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I love how Mother Theresa said she wouldn't attend an anti-war rally but if there was a peace rally to call her. So I realized it's not about waging a war against everybody's disease and diagnosis but rather about helping them live.
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The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick
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There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people.
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Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.
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I always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team. When he was well into his eighties a friend found him in his office on Sunday, and asked him why, at his age, he was working on a Sunday. His response, 'It’s only work if there’s someplace else you’d rather be.'
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Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die.
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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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Traditional doctors say I'm a mystic. I don't deny it.
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You too are a work of art.
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You can't control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.
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Consciousness is non-local and does not depend on words to communicate.
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