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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.

Abraham Verghese

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Make something beautiful of your life.
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The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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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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You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
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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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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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