She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI 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.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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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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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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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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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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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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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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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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