What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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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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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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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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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.
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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 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?
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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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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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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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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