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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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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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There are moments as a teacher when I’m conscious that I’m trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago.
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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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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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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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Destiny Family Happiness Key Motivational Own Slipper Talent
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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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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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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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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Body Feeling Leave Physician Sense Technology Visualize Wonderful
Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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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’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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