Braungers Quotes & Sayings

I eventually realized that direct experience is the most valuable experience I can have. Western man is so surrounded by ideas, so bombarded with opinions, concepts, and information structures of all sorts, that it becomes difficult to experience anything without the intervening filter of these structures. — Michael Crichton

You can't know what's going to happen before it happens. — Garth Stein

Watch the sun until it comes into your body and stays as a tiny sun. It will keep your face shining even in the coldest of winter. — Yoko Ono

Not every lost soul is a lost cause — M. Alice LeGrow

Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one. — Patti Smith

Poverty drove their parents to have them castrated as young children, hoping they would earn a better living at court. Usually the father would take the boy to a specialist castrator, who operated by the appointment of the court. After a contract was signed, absolving the castrator from any responsibility in case of death or failure (both highly likely outcomes), the unimaginably painful operation was performed. The castrator's fee was huge and had to be paid from future earnings. — Jung Chang

It's all very simple, or else it's all very complex, or perhaps it's neither, or both. — Ashleigh Brilliant

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. — Charles Dickens

With the coming of spring, I am calm again. — Gustav Mahler

I had not particularly liked the way in which he wrote about literature in Beginnings, and I was always on my guard if not outright hostile when any tincture of 'deconstruction' or 'postmodernism' was applied to my beloved canon of English writing, but when Edward talked about English literature and quoted from it, he passed the test that I always privately apply: Do you truly love this subject and could you bear to live for one moment if it was obliterated? — Christopher Hitchens

Our attitude determines our altitude. — Paul H. Dunn