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“Focus on the why, even if the why gives you results that go against everything you’d hoped to accomplish.”
― Solving for Why: A Surgeon's Journey to Discover the Transformative Power of Purpose
― Solving for Why: A Surgeon's Journey to Discover the Transformative Power of Purpose
“I've learned to fall in love with failure not because failure is pleasant, but because it is beautiful. Failure tells me I tried something I don't yet know how to do. It indicates I'm moving. And it shows me that I'm no longer on the anodyne path.”
― Solving for Why: A Surgeon's Journey to Discover the Transformative Power of Purpose
― Solving for Why: A Surgeon's Journey to Discover the Transformative Power of Purpose
“This is the church of the outcast, the shunned, the spurned, the Other. This is the congregation of the sideshow. This is my people. This is worship.”
― Solving for Why: A Surgeon's Journey to Discover the Transformative Power of Purpose
― Solving for Why: A Surgeon's Journey to Discover the Transformative Power of Purpose
“Purpose, meaning, and contentment exist when why is at the center, and when we construct our paths to lead to it. Not the other way around.”
― Solving for Why: A Surgeon's Journey to Discover the Transformative Power of Purpose
― Solving for Why: A Surgeon's Journey to Discover the Transformative Power of Purpose
“Turning our hearts toward the poor, then, can't just mean dealing with pecuniary poverty. It can't just mean a monthly donation. It has to mean diving in, walking alongside, breaking down the hegemony, and fighting the ethos of the Other, wherever we find it. It must mean taking a serious look at our own role in perpetuating the structural inequities Dr. Farmer describes.”
― Solving for Why: A Surgeon's Journey to Discover the Transformative Power of Purpose
― Solving for Why: A Surgeon's Journey to Discover the Transformative Power of Purpose
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