Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe 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.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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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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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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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 know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
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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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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.
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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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