The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThere is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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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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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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I’m not sure how exactly we could manage.
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it’s only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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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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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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