Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
ABRAHAM VERGHESENo blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
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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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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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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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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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The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you
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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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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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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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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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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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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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