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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEYesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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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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Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else’s?’ And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care … it is another story altogether.
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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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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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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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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Yesterday misspent can’t be recall’d Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
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The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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