A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.
As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.
Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.
Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.
Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
Solutions to problems often depend upon how they're defined.
The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes, while others at least make new ones. Regret and remorse can be either paralyzing or inspiring.
The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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