Auenbrugger Quotes & Sayings

Monseigneur Bienvenu was simply a man who took note of the exterior of mysterious questions without scrutinizing them, and without troubling his own mind with them, and who cherished in his own soul a grave respect for darkness. — Victor Hugo

When a man makes alliance with the Almighty, giants look like grasshoppers. — Vance Havner

Raise a glass to freedom
Something they can never take away
No matter what they tell you — Lin-Manuel Miranda

Sanity can take one of only two forms: that of ignorance, or denial. — Derek R. Audette

Happiness will grow if you plant the seeds of love in the garden of hope with compassion and care. — Debasish Mridha

She was curious, and she could be untoward. But she was dutiful. She was pared to fit. — Jill Lepore

The problem with patience and discipline is that it requires both of them to develop each of them. — Thomas M. Sterner

Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life. — Jostein Gaarder

Everything which is of use to mankind is honourable. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

With the Special Ops Warrior Foundation's help, we put 266 kids through college last year. And that's what keeps me going. I'll be honest, I don't like running. I don't like biking. I don't like swimming. I do it to raise money. But, now that I'm in this sport, I want to see how far I can push myself. What makes me tick is that pain you feel when you do these ultramarathons. I love knowing that everyone's suffering because I know I can suffer just a little bit more. I can take a lot of pain. — David Goggins

What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside. — Margaret Laurence

... the samurai ethic is a political science of the heart, designed to control such discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing them to others. It was thought more important to look healthy than to be healthy, and more important to seem bold and daring than to be so. This view of morality, since it is physiologically based on the special vanity peculiar to men, is perhaps the supreme male view of morality. — Yukio Mishima

Those of us whose parenting style can be described as "a series of reflexes, instincts, and minute-by-minute adjustments," as Julie of A Little Pregnant puts it, rather than as a philosophy, are less invested in our own practices. What we do is often less a matter of conviction than one of convenience. What we need to remember is that there is no need to apologize for that, even in the face of the most red-faced outrage. — Ayelet Waldman