Stauffacherin Quotes & Sayings

After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us toward is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. For however important chastity (or courage, or truthfulness, or any other virtue) may be, this process trains us in habits of the soul which are more important still. It cures our illusions about ourselves and teaches us to depend on God. We learn, on the one hand, that we cannot trust ourselves even in our best moments, and, on the other, that we need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. — C.S. Lewis

Walking ... is how the body measures itself against the earth. — Rebecca Solnit

This is your house...If they don't respect you here, they won't respect you anywhere. — James S.A. Corey

He thinks he's happy but it's just a nerve cell in his brain that's getting too much stimulation or too little stimulation. — Don DeLillo

Women are still angry about feeling duped and undervalued, but instead of ignoring their kids and downing cocktails all day, as in Friedan's time, now we have the angry overdrive child-rearing style: motherhood as a competitive sport. — Laura Kipnis