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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…

Abraham Verghese

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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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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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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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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams.
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Age Care Constant Dream Dying Feeling Hearing People Taking Transient
He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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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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I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician.
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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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’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America,
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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