I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we ‘battle’ cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation.
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It was all I had, all I’ve ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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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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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they’ll leave in people’s hearts.
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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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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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