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

-- Abraham Verghese

#Home Quotes #Helping Quotes #Patient Quotes

“When we stop resisting what we don't want to feel and embrace the state that we are in, we move through whatever it is SO much faster and find our way back to truth and clarity.”
“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”

Source : Interview in "Writers at Work" (The Paris Review Interviews), 8th Series, 1988.
“Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.”
“When you have seen the things I have seen and traveled all over the world, you would not be honest to yourself and the world to [look away].”
“Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.”
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are alsopracticed in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death--that is, they attempt suicide--twice as often as men, though men are more "successful" because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
“I seem to myself, as in a dream, Am accidental guest in this dreadful body.”
“Life is not a destination; it's a journey. It's not a series of goals; it's a series of steps, of events unfolding as you make your way. Life is not all about accomplishment; it's all about doing, participating, progressing, growing, learning.”

Source : Hernacki, Mike (2001). “The Ultimate Secret to Getting Absolutely Everything You Want”, p.121, Pelican Publishing

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