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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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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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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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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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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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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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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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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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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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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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