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Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

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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 ...more

The Names

by Florence Knapp

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“You know how hind-sight is 20/20? Love is when you look back and wouldn't change anything.”
― Jodi Piccoult

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“Curiosity is such an attractive quality. He”
― Liane Moriarty, Here One Moment

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“It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on Earth and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up that we begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had. —Elisabeth Kübler-Ross”
― Liane Moriarty, Here One Moment

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“He promises us this in the Gospels. “I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

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“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. there is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.”
― Henry Miller

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