Abraham Verghese Quotes, Lucky Quotes, Purpose Quotes

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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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

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You live it forward, but understand it backward.

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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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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. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can can play the 'Gloria'? No, not Bach's 'Gloria.' Yours! Your 'Gloria' lives within you. The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you.

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I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

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That's the funny thing about America--the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others. I've had my share of angels.

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Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.

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Another day in paradise' was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.

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By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.

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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

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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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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

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Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It's a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.

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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. 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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Make something beautiful of your life.

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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.

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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.

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