“… omniscience about life and death is not within a physician’s purview. A doctor should never write off a person a priori.”— Jerome Groopman Related Quotes “With enough hope, you can set a fire to find the way out of the darkness.”— Serena Smith “This life required scars,…Some were on the outside, and some they carried on the inside. But scars weren’t shameful. They meant survival. They meant putting in work. They meant sticking around and getting through the hard stuff just on the chance that things could get better.”— T.S. Joyce “Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.”— E.E. Cummings