Assessing Your Achievement of Values and Life Satisfaction: Select Your Values Statements 

An Excerpt From the Curriculum of the 3rd Grapevine

The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation. 
     - Sir William Osler

The training of the medical school gives man his direction, points him the way, and furnishes him with a chart, fairly incomplete, for the voyage, but nothing more. 
     - Sir William Osler

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. 
     - Albert Schweitzer

When knowledge is translated into proper action we speak of it as wisdom 
     - William J. Mayo

We give thanks for places of refuge and beauty. May we find such places in ourselves. 
     - Rachel Naomi Remen (adapted from Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, California)

Life is short, and Art long; the crisis fleeting; experience perilous, and decision difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate. 
     - Hippocrates

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals. 
     - Albert Schweitzer

As perplexity of soul will be your lot and portion, accept the situation with a good grace. 
     - Sir William Osler

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
     - Albert Schweitzer

The important thing is to make the lesson of each case tell on your education. The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely. 
     - Sir William Osler

If there is a sixth sense, it is intuition, that instinctive summing up of memories and other evidences collected by the special senses and correlated in man’s consciousness 
     - William J. Mayo

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. 
     - Albert Schweitzer

I have learned since to be a better student, and to be ready to say to my fellow students “I do not know.” 
     - Sir William Osler

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. 
     - Albert Schweitzer

The incessant concentration of thought upon one subject, however interesting, tethers a man’s mind in a narrow field. 
     - Sir William Osler

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it. 
     - Albert Schweitzer

In the study of some apparently new problems, we often make progress by reading the work of the great men of the past
     - Charles H. Mayo

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