Quotes from Axel Munthe

What you keep for yourself, you lose. What you give away, you keep forever

Christ - an anarchist who succeeded.

I want my house open to sun and wind and the voice of the sea, like a Greek temple, and light, light, light everywhere!

The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope without friends without books even without music as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

What you keep to yourself you lose, what you give away, you keep forever.

To become a good dog-doctor it is necessary to love dogs, but it is also necessary to understand them - the same as with us, with the difference that it is easier to understand a dog than a man and easier to love him.

We know that we are going to die, in fact it is the only thing we know of what is in store for us. All the rest is mere guesswork, and most of the time we guess wrong. Like children in the trackless forest we grope our way through our lives in blissful ignorance of what is going to happen to us from one day to another, what hardships we may have to face, what more or less thrilling adventures we may encounter before the great adventure, the most thrilling of all, the Adventure of Death.

Happiness we can only find in ourselves, it is a waste of time to seek for it from others, few have any to spare. Sorrow we have to bear alone as best we can, it is not fair to try to shift it on others, be they men or women. We have to fight our own battles and strike as hard as we can, born fighters as we are.

Dievai visas g?rybes parduoda tikr?ja kaina, yra pasak?s vienas senov?s poetas. Jis b?t? gal?j?s pridurti, kad pa?ias ver?iausias jie parduoda pigiausiai. Viskas, kas mums tikrai naudinga - nebrangu; tik už tai, be ko galima apsieiti, mokam didelius pinigus. Kas gražu - išvis neparduodama; visa tai nemirtingieji dievai mums duoda veltui.

Norstrom always used to say that I had two different brains working alternatively in my head: the well developed brain of a fool and the un- developed brain of a sort of genius.

To my amazement, I have heard that there are people who have never seen a gnome. I can't help pitying these people. I am certain there must be something wrong with their eyesight.

Why didn't we build more hospitals and fewer churches, you could pray to God everywhere but you could not operate in a gutter!

Death, the giver of Life, the slayer of Life, the beginning and the end.

Cilv?ks neiztur?tu dz?ves smagumu, ja zin?tu savu n?ves stundu.

N?ks laiks, kad cilv?ki vairs nesm?n?s, kad vi?i saprat?s, ka rad?t?js gan nodevis dz?vnieku pasauli m?su ž?last?bai, bet ne m?su patva?ai: ka dz?vniekiem ir t?das pašas ties?bas uz dz?vi k? mums un ka m?su ties?bas laup?t vi?iem dz?v?bu ir stingri turamas m?su pašaizsardz?bas un eksistences ties?bu robež?s.

Ne cepure ce? v?ru, bet galva.

You cannot be a good doctor without pity.

soul needs more space than the body. Not

that there is no drug as powerful as hope, that the slightest sign of pessimism in the face or words of a doctor can cost his patient his life.

No, there is no romance so stirring, so thrilling, and so heartrending as life's great epic; but its fate is the same as that of the Bible — there are but few who care to read it.