# The Covenant of Water

- Author: [Abraham Verghese](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abraham-verghese.md)
- Quotes: 11
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/abraham-verghese/the-covenant-of-water

## Quotes

> Roses would be annoying weeds if the blooms never withered and died. Beauty resides in the knowledge that it doesn’t last.

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> To see the miraculous in the ordinary is a more precious gift than prophecy.

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> Fiction is the great lie that tells the truth about how the world lives!

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> We don’t have children to fulfill our dreams. Children allow us to let go of the dreams we were never meant to fulfill.

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> Success is not money! Success is you are fully loving what you are doing. That only is success!

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> Sometimes we have to “live the question,” not push for the answer.

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> Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life, and faith is the oil.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abraham-verghese/the-covenant-of-water/worry-and-anxiety.md)

> You can’t set out to achieve your goals without a little madness.

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> You can’t walk across a lake just because you change its name to “land.” Labels matter.

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> In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abraham-verghese/the-covenant-of-water/in-a-time.md)

> In a life, it is the in-betweens that are fatal.

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