Bernie Siegel Quotes

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• I am convinced that unconditional love is the most powerful known stimulant of the immune system. If I told patients to raise their blood levels of immune globulins or killer T cells, no one would know how. But if I can teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same changes happen automatically. The truth is: love heals.

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  Love, Change, Truth

  "Love, Medicine & Miracles". Book by Bernie Siegel, 1984.

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• One's attitude towards oneself is the single most important factor in healing and staying well.

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  Attitude, Healing, Important

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• Be grateful simply for being alive. When you are grateful for life, pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for. That may strike you as circular or even backward logic, but your attitude really does have an effect on how things work out. When you can't change your life any other way, you can still change your attitude. When you do, your life changes. You find more chances to love, and you will be surprised to see how much more love is returned to you.

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  Thanksgiving, Attitude, Life Changing

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• You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn't try to be a tiger, and you shouldn't try to be something you aren't. You are a process, not a product. Your job is to discover what you are and create that creature. You still won't be perfect, but success isn't about perfection-it is about authenticity. You are a success if you are being your real, authentic self.

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  Success, Being Yourself, Jobs

  Bernie Siegel (2013). “Prescriptions For Living: Inspirational Lessons for a Joyful, Loving Life”, p.92, Random House

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• If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.

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  Encouragement, Nature, Adversity

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• Love releases incredible energy that promotes the biochemistry of healing.

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  Healing, Energy, Incredibles

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• Thoughts are chemical. They can either kill us or cure us.

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  Chemicals, Cures

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• Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.

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  Opportunity, Self, Challenges

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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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  Meaningful, Spiritual, Adversity

  "Peace, Love and Healing: Bodymind Communication & the Path to Self-Healing: An Exploration". Book by Bernie Siegel, 1989.

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• I believe that we are here to contribute love to the planet - each of us in our own way

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  Believe, Way, I Believe

  Bernie S. Siegel (2013). “The Art of Healing: Uncovering Your Inner Wisdom and Potential for Self-Healing”, p.107, New World Library

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• When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.

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  Happiness, Moving, Past

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• You can't control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.

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  Order, World

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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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  Feelings, Graveyard, Within You

  Dr. Bernie Siegel (2009). “365 Prescriptions for the Soul: Daily Messages of Inspiration, Hope, and Love”, p.139, New World Library

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• When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.

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  Forgiving, Unforgivable, Unlovable

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• One cannot get through life without pain...What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.

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  Motivational, Pain, Grief

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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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  Compassion, Perfect, Suffering

  "The Inner Life: Why Do We Suffer?" by Bernie Siegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Compliments are the helium that fills everyone's balloon; they elevate the person receiving them so he or she can fly over life's troubles and land safely on the other side.

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  Positive, Land, Receiving

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• Life is a labor pain; we are here to give birth to ourself.

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  Pain, Giving, Birth

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• For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.

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  Gratitude, Lovely, Wake Up

  Bernie Siegel (2013). “Prescriptions For Living: Inspirational Lessons for a Joyful, Loving Life”, p.190, Random House

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• It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation. The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.

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  Stress, Meditation, Levels

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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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  Love You, Thinking, Doing You

  "Health Care Crisis in America: The Way to Avoid It" by Bernie Siegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2010.

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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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  Strong, Heart, Mean

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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. At the end of the day, she noticed that everybody around her was happy, too- so she didn't quit after all. She decided to come to work happy instead. Two years later, she's still on the job, radiating happiness and love.

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  Jobs, Work, Years

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• It's not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.

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  Healing, Benefits, Disease

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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, Two, People

  Bernie Siegel (2013). “Prescriptions For Living: Inspirational Lessons for a Joyful, Loving Life”, p.114, Random House

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