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.
Interpretation
This quote encourages individuals to recognize and utilize their inherent talents and potential given by God.
Abraham Verghese emphasizes the importance of discovering and embracing one's unique abilities, portraying each person as an instrument meant to contribute to the world. He suggests that choosing to ignore or underutilize these gifts is the true failure, as it prevents one from expressing their own unique creativity and purpose, which he metaphorically calls 'Gloria'.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-discovery and harnessing one's abilities.
The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. It's like a cancer that's metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.
I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient whose care I am taking over is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it's only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they'll leave in people's hearts. They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
Dreamers don't have special genes. They find circumstances that amplify their dreams.
The world is in trouble. Many have prayed. God sent help. God sent you.
I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don't have to keep saying, We don't have work for black women.'
Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.
I was thinking as a little girl growing up that I would be there. When I look at whether we can go to Mars, it's definitely something we can do.
She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this. And when hope is gone, time is punishment.
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