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“Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
From "Cutting for Stone”
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From "Cutting for Stone”
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“According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's an apt metaphor for our profession. But there's another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family. Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.”
― Cutting for Stone
― Cutting for Stone
“You live it forward, but understand it backward.”
― Cutting for Stone
― Cutting for Stone
“The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.”
― Cutting for Stone
― Cutting for Stone
“This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil; I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?”
― Cutting for Stone
― Cutting for Stone
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