More Abraham Verghese quote about:
“Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted” -- Abraham Verghese
#Home #Definitions #Where You Are
“Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.” -- Abraham Verghese
“You live it forward, but understand it backward.” -- Abraham Verghese
#Life #Inspire
“There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-” -- Abraham Verghese
#Grief #Results #Capacity
“Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.” -- Abraham Verghese
#Looks #Wheels #Caught
“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.” -- Abraham Verghese
#Lucky #Purpose #Common
“Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?"... "Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223"... "And pray, why would this number interest us?" "It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, 'One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes'.” -- Abraham Verghese
#Zero #Two #Numbers
“The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.” -- Abraham Verghese
#Motivation #Inspiration #Hands
“What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?” -- Abraham Verghese
#Ears #Emergencies #Treatment
