Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
ABRAHAM VERGHESEBe careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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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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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school – not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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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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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn’t change them. That hurt.
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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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