Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
ABRAHAM VERGHESEYour job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It’s a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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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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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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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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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 crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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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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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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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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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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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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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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