The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it. Axel Munthe More Quotes by Axel Munthe More Quotes From Axel Munthe I want my house open to sun and wind and the voice of the sea, like a Greek temple, and light, light, light everywhere! Axel Munthe light home wind I was not a good doctor, my studies had been too rapid, my hospital training too short, but there is not the slightest doubt that I was a successful doctor. What is the secret of success? To inspire confidence. What is confidence? ... I do not know, I only know that it cannot be acquired by book reading, nor by the bedside of our patients. It is a magic gift granted by birth-right to one man and denied to another. The doctor who possesses this gift can almost raise the dead Axel Munthe reading successful book 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. Axel Munthe men long book What you keep for yourself, you lose. What you give away, you keep forever Axel Munthe giving-money christmas forever A dog gladly admits the superiority of his master over himself, accepts his judgment as final, but, contrary to what dog-lovers believe, he does not consider himself as a slave. His submission is voluntary, and he expects his own small rights to be respected. Axel Munthe rights dog believe The soul needs more space than the body. Axel Munthe space soul needs A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. Axel Munthe respect self-esteem attitude Pasteur himself was absolutely fearless. Anxious to secure a sample of saliva straight from the jaws of a rabid dog, I once saw him with the glass tube held between his lips draw a few drops of the deadly saliva from the mouth of a rabid bull-dog, held on the table by two assistants, their hands protected by leather gloves. Axel Munthe glasses dog hands Christ - an anarchist who succeeded. Axel Munthe anarchist god christ
