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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.

Abraham Verghese

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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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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.
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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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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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If we are fortunate, we ‘beat’ the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having ‘succumbed after a long battle.’
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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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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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you.
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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. .
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