We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
ABRAHAM VERGHESENot only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
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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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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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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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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.
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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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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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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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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