There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
ABRAHAM VERGHESENot only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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