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Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.

Abraham Verghese

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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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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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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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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.
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When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.
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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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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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We’re losing a ritual. We’re losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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