Joel Fuhrman, MD, is an American family physician and New York Times bestselling author who advocates the benefits of a plant-based, nutrient-dense diet to reverse and prevent disease, maintain weight loss, and slow the process of aging.
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Stay a verb—don’t become a noun.
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Life’s work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into the circle wake you up rather than put you to sleep. The only way to do this is to open, be curious, and develop some sense of sympathy for everything that comes along, to get to know its nature and let it teach you what it will.
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If you bring forth what is within you it will save you. If you do not, it will destroy you.
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The overuse of prescription drugs provides a vacation from personal responsibility.
We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.
Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
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How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change.
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.
No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.
We meet no ordinary people in our lives.