We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI 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?
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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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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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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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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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Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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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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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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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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