The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.