…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIgnorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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Your 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.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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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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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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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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