black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.

Abraham Verghese

Related Topics

Always Bitter Feeding Keep Promise Saying Searching Slipper

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Anthropologist Baptism Inauhrating President Ritual Transformation Use
A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Begin Boo Club Discourse Living Meaningful Room Spread
Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Favorite Mathematics Number Pray Praying Share Tell
What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Empathy Huge Learning Medical Need Process School Sight Volume
I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Anybody Love Poetry Read Reading Show Willing Written
She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Calmness Emergency Falseness Familiar Fashion Feeling Felt Medicine
For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Airports Body Country Doe Information Interest Opportunity Treasure
Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Clinical Conversion Cynical Medical School Student Undergo Year
My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Body Feeling Leave Physician Sense Technology Visualize Wonderful
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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Care God Human Being Judge Judging Relieve Suffering Thinking
The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Cancer Flip Leave Mind People Side Suicide
At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Advance Medicine Technology Time Today Variety
How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Brethren Country Least Measure Treat
Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Definition Home House Question Wanted
The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Action Know Omission Turn Whether World
My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Admit Certainly Doctor Intent Myself One Subconsciously World Young

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes