The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
ABRAHAM VERGHESETo be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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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.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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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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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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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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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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