I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEYou are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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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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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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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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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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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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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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