black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Make something beautiful of your life.

Abraham Verghese

Related Topics

Beautiful Create Dream Journey Life m Wonder Something

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Barber Bleeding Cupping Giving Matter Purging Surgeon Teeth
Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Addressing Anyone Broken Job Leg Medicine Terrible Trip
If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Always Bitter Feeding Keep Promise Saying Searching Slipper
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 VERGHESE

Beyond Common Death Early Lucky Purpose Unbidden
Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Apt Divide Family Hole Kind Metaphor Profession Still
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. .
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

God Instrument Leave Play Sitting Son Three
Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Action Become Destiny Omisison
If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Battle Beat Cancer Fortunate Long Posthumously Praised Succumbed
It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Leave Lifetime Much Next Generation Task Unfinished
By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Helping Home Patient
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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Conscious Exact Moment Professor Teacher Trotting Year
There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Book Feeling Lovely Meaningful Read Writing
…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Action Guilt Lead Rarely Right Righteous
I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Always Book Contributing Country Middle Sense Wanted Write
Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Dynamic Grew Ignorance Knowledge Proportion Same
If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE

Allow Fellow Make Nothing Observation Opportunity Prolonged Traveler

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes