Favourite Quotations (Moderator: Frederique)

Someone who commits suicide in order to end unbearable anguish is desperately reaching out for happiness

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When we talk of ignorance, it has nothing to do with stupidity. In a way, ignorance is very intelligent, but it is an intelligence that works exclusively in one direction. That is, we react exclusively to our own projections instead of simply seeing what is there.

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What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss—absolute bliss!—as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your bosom, sending out a little shower of sparks into every

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Happiness does not come automatically. It is not a gift that good fortune bestows upon us and a reversal of fortune takes back. It depends on us alone. One does not become happy overnight, but with patient labor, day after day. Happiness is constructed, and that requires effort and time. In order to become happy, we have to learn how to change ourselves.

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Ο χορός είναι η αναπνοή που γίνεται ορατή. Αυτό τα καλύπτει σχεδόν όλα, καθώς όταν σταματάς να αναπνέεις και η αναπνοή δεν είναι πλέον ορατή, σταματάς να κινείσαι.

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Nίκησα; Nικήθηκα; Tούτο μονάχα ξέρω: είμαι γεμάτος πληγές και στέκομαι όρθιος...

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The mind is like the wind and the body like the sand: if you want to see how the wind is blowing, you can look at the sand. → Ο νους είναι όπως ο άνεμος και το σώμα είναι όπως η άμμος. Αν θέλεις να μάθεις πως φυσάει ο άνεμος χρειάζεται να κοιτάξεις την άμμο.

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Υπάρχουν τρεις αρχές στην ανθρώπινη ύπαρξη: η αρχή της σκέψης, η αρχή της ομιλίας και η αρχή της πράξης. Κάθε σύγκρουση ανάμεσα σ' εμένα και στον συνάνθρωπό μου προέρχεται από το ότι δεν λέω αυτό που εννοώ και δεν κάνω αυτό που λέω.

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Είναι δύσκολο να πολεμήσεις έναν αντίπαλο που έχει προκεχωρημένα φυλάκια στο μυαλό σου.

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Λίγες είναι οι διαμάχες που δεν έχουν ξεκινήσει από μια γυναίκα.

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Αυτοί που βρίσκονται σε πόλεμο με τους άλλους δεν έχουν ειρήνη με τον εαυτό τους.

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Είναι υπέροχο, πάνω από όλα, να γνωρίζουμε ότι έχουμε τη δύναμη να εμφυσήσουμε ζωή στα περισσότερο απόμακρα πράγματα που εγγίζουμε, να μακρύνουμε το βλέμμα μας και να μη βρίσκουμε άκρες, επειδή όλα όσα βλέπουμε καθίστανται, όπως και εμείς, ατέρμονα.

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The problem is; We look for someone to grow old together, While the secret is to find someone to stay a child with!

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What does Love mean to 4-8 year old kids?

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How do you quiet down the frightened animal inside of you? The answer to that is probably in the same way that you quiet down babies. You quiet them by holding and touching them, by being very much in tune with them, by feeding and rocking them, and by very gradual exposure to trying new things.

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Women are utterly, fundamentally, indifferent to poetry. In this they are like men of action, and all women are “men of action.” It seems that they are interested in it, from adolescence, for one subtle reason only: poetry is born of a bacchanalian exaltation, an exaltation that lies at the root of all that women regard as real. Even when they are inexperienced or superficial, women never confuse any other emotion with the real, active, vital emotion that seizes them when confronted with life itself.

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