I’ve had my share of angels.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEAs she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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