You live it forward, but understand it backward.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhen a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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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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I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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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