Abraham Verghese Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• 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. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

  Abraham Verghese

  Motivational, Destiny, Keys

  "Cutting for Stone". Book by Abraham Verghese, www.sfgate.com. 2009.

• She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.

  Abraham Verghese

  Medicine, Feelings, Emergencies

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.42, Random House India

• My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.

  Abraham Verghese

  Technology, Feelings, Physicians

• I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn't change them. That hurt.

  Abraham Verghese

  Dream, Hurt, Feelings

• There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. 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.

  Abraham Verghese

  Teacher, Years, Eerie

• There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.

  Abraham Verghese

  Meaningful, Book, Writing

• 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.

  Abraham Verghese

  Dream, People, Feelings

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