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They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.

Abraham Verghese

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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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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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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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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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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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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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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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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 grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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