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 VERGHESEMake something beautiful of your life.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
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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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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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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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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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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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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.
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I love to read poetry but I haven’t written anything that I’m willing to show anybody.
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