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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.

Abraham Verghese

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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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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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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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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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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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Deathbed Heart Mean Patient People Regret VIP
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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Chasing Died Each Elsewhere Greatness Hand never Saw Seeking Time
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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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Broken Fixing Generations Next Unfinished
Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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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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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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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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Make something beautiful of your life.
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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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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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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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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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