If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhy settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it.
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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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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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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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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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If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
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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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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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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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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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