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“I wanted to be happy, as if I had nothing else to do”
– Albert Camus

“The body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it as it feels the campfire or sunshine, entering not by the eyes alone, but equally through all one’s flesh like radiant heat.”
– John Muir

“Love is what remains when all other emotions are gone.”
– Naval Ravikant

“Here’s something you shouldn’t say after sex: ‘That oughta hold you for a while, Gertrude'”
– George Miller

“Safety is not a question of a lack of threat. Safety is the presence of connection.”
– Gabor Mate

“Get action; do things; be sane; don’t fritter away your time; create; act; take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“It is the movement of people and things that distracts, and even consoles us. If the leaves of the trees did notmove, how sad the trees would be, and we too.”
– Edgar Degas

“Κανείς δε χτίζει γέφυρα πάνω από ένα ποτάμι που δε βλέπει.”
– Adriana Schnake

“Home is where people notice when you’re not there.”
– Alexander Haymen

“The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy – & to deal with these we need a spiritual and cultural transformation”
– Gus Speth

“It’s embarrassing that after 45 years of research and study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other.”
– Aldous Huxley

“There is a door between the logical and intuitive worlds, and we must put a smooth hinge on it, and let it swing…”
– Lorna Crozier

“You feel differently towards the world when you make things.”
– Milton Glaser

“You don’t love someone for their loss, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
– Oscar Wilde

“He, who will not reason, is a bigot; he, who cannot, is a fool; and he, who dares not, is a slave.”
– William Drummond

“Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”
– Robert Fulghum

“You can beat 40 scholars with one fact, but you cannot beat one idiot with 40 facts”.
– Anonymous

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“Being British is all about driving a German car to an Irish theme pub to drink Belgian beer then going home buying an Indian take-away to sit on a Swedish sofa infront of a Japanese television to watch American shows and all the while being suspicious of anything foreign”.

«Η επιστήμη ταυτίζεται εξ ορισμού με τη συνετή και συνεχή αναζήτηση της αλήθειας, η οποία φρονώ ότι είναι ο σκοπός της ζωής μας. Στην αναζήτηση αυτή είναι συνοδοιπόρος και η εκκλησία μας» είπε ο κ. Τσιόδρας απευθυνόμενος στον Οικουμενικό Πατριάρχη.

The principle is always and everywhere the same: in Mu countries, one must conform one’s behavior to Mu sensibilities. In non-Mu countries, one must conform one’s behavior to Mu sensibilities.

And as things fell apart, Nobody paid much attention

– Talking Heads –

Everything is a sneaky small monthly subscription.

To Lose Weight With Exercise, Aim for 300 Minutes a Week.
Overweight men and women who exercised six days a week lost weight.

“Oooh, so Mother Nature needs a favor?! Well maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts and floods and poison monkeys! Nature started the fight for survival, and now she wants to quit because she’s losing. Well I say, hard cheese.” — Charles Montgomery Plantagenet Schicklgruber “Monty” Burns [The Simpsons]

I absolutely hate that my chances of survival during this period are inextricably linked to other people having common sense.

Και να πονάς να μην ξεχνάς. Είναι αμαρτία να ξεχνάς τη Σμύρνη, τη σφαγή και τον χαμό.
— Αγγέλα Παπάζογλου

“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.”

“The sun doesn’t forget a village Just because it is small.”
– African Proverb

“You really can change the world if you care enough.”
– Marian Wright Edelman

Δεν θα φτάσεις ποτέ στον προορισμό σου αν σταματάς και ρίχνεις πέτρες σε κάθε σκυλί που γαβγίζει.

Our current crisis: Unless we change, we’ll get where we’re going.

Ας μεταμφιεστούμε σε άνθη και οι μέλισσες θα έρθουν.
— Ουμπέρτο Έκο “Το εκκρεμές του Φουκώ”

Rich people: “Privatize the gains. Socialize the losses.”

So you believe that? Right now there is a tree working very hard to produce oxygen so that you can breathe, I think you should apologize to it.

Milhouse van Houten: Really? What else do you love, Lisa?
Lisa Simpson (President): Fiscal solvency.
Milhouse van Houten (heartbroken): Uh, me too.
— The Simpsons S11E17

Ο ρόλος της τέχνης

Ο ρόλος της τέχνης

είναι να δημιουργεί έναν κόσμο

που μπορεί να κατοικηθεί.

– William Saroyan

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

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Περίεργο πράγμα η καρδιά. Όσο τη σπαταλάς τόσο περισσότερη έχεις.
– Κώστας Μόντης

All civilization was just an effort to impress the opposite sex, and sometimes the same sex.
– Futurama

I don’t know .. I .. people used to like me … and all of a sudden .. I don’t know how its evolved like this .. but I used to have friends who really liked me .. not women but ..
– Larry David

“Ohana” means “family.” “Family” means “no one gets left behind.” But if you want to leave, you can. I’ll remember you though. I remember everyone that leaves.
– Lilo

To absent friends, lost loves, old gods and the seasons of mists. And may each and everyone of us always give the devil his due.
– Hob Gadlings toast, in Sandman #22: “Season of Mists”, episode 1

I don’t understand what the news is these days. Hey, here is a bunch of shit that you can’t fix that happened that was horrible.
– Bill Burr

Kindness is like snow—it beautifies everything it covers.
– Kahlil Gibran

Human beings are divided into mind and body. The mind embraces all the nobler aspirations, like poetry and philosophy, but the body has all the fun.
– Woody Allen, Love and Death (1975)

[…] is temporary, Wu-Tang is forever

“Love is what remains when all other emotions are gone.
– Naval Ravikant

“Safety is not a question of a lack of threat. Safety is the presence of connection.”
– Gabor Maté

“The most precious gift you can give to the one you love is your true presence. So the first mantra is very simple: “Dear one, I am here for you.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“Never say you know the last word about any human heart.”

– Henry James

It’s just luck in the end. That’s all life is. All the good luck you have and all the bad luck. That’s the only story.
– William Boyd

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But, then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love, to be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy, therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness — I hope you’re getting this down.

– Woody Allen, Love and Death (1975)

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“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”
– Aldous Huxley

“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke

“It is far easier to critique than to create”
– Laurence Endersen

“Nothing in nature takes more than it needs”
– Tom Shadyac

“Curiosity is the engine of civilisation”
– Peter Cundill

“Once upon a time people were born into communities and had to find their individuality. Today people are born individuals and have to find their communities.”
— K-Hole

Pessimism: We have a problem, but we can’t solve it
Optimism: We have a problem, and we can solve it
Responsibility: We have a problem. Can I help solve it?
Initiative: We have a problem. Here’s how I’m solving it
– Adam Grant

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom yourself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are and to make new things like them.

– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Αυτοί που αγάπησα ίσως χάθηκαν, όχι όμως το γεγονός ότι τους αγάπησα, ούτε ο χρόνος που αφιέρωσα γι’ αυτό, ούτε ο εραστής που έγινα για να τους αγαπήσω»

– Jean-Luc Marion – Το Ερωτικό Φαινόμενο

Υπάρχει ένας πολύ καλός τρόπος για να ξεχωρίζει κανείς τους καλούς….από τους κακούς ανθρώπους. Αν το χαμόγελο γλυκαίνει τη φυσιογνωμία…..ο άνθρωπος είναι καλός. Αν συμβαίνει το αντίθετο… μακριά του!”

– William L.Phelps

You can’t wait until life’s not hard anymore before you decide to be happy.
– Nightbirdie

Heaven bless thee! Thou hast the sweetest face I ever looked on; Sir, as I have a soul, she is an angel.

– William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (c. 1613), Act IV, scene 1, line 43

Is she not more than painting can express, Or youthful poets fancy, when they love?

– Nicholas Rowe

Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair, Like Twilight’s, too, her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn.

– William Wordsworth, She was a Phantom of Delight

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“We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost effective.”
–Kurt Vonnegut

“Nothing in nature takes more than it needs”
– Tom Shadyac

“It is far easier to critique than to create”
– Laurence Endersen

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”
– Aldous Huxley

“This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don’t get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can’t do anything, don’t get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it’s ready to come undone. You have to realize it’s going to be a long process and that you’ll work on things slowly, one at a time.”
– Haruki Murakami

Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
– Lao Tzu

Αυτοί που πρώτοι παρατηρούν τα ελαττώματα των άλλων, είναι εκείνοι που έχουν τα περισσότερα.
– Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, Άγγλος φιλόσοφος

Ένα από τα ελαττώματα του χαρακτήρα του ανθρώπου είναι ότι όλοι θέλουν να χτίσουν και κανένας δεν θέλει να συντηρήσει.
– Kurt Vonnegut

Βαθιά στις ρίζες τους, όλα τα φυτά κρατάνε το φως.
– Theodore Roethke

Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.
— Friedrich Nietzsche

When there is a range of opinion in the group, communications tend to be directed towards those members whose opinions are at the extremes of the range.
— Leon Festinger and John Thibaut. “Interpersonal communication in small groups.” The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 46.1 (1951): 92.

“Hate is usually louder than love – in society and within ourselves. What will happen if we listen to the quieter voices?”
— Charles Eisenstein

Any Organized social group is always a stratified social body. There has not been and does not exist any permanent social group which is “flat” and in which all members are equal.
— Pitirim Sorokin (1927) Social Mobility, p. 12

Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living, but the examined life is no bargain.
— Woody Allen

Any job you can do in your pajamas is not difficult.
— Bill Burr

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“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
– Desmond Tutu

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams

Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.
– Marshall MacLuhan

“A civilization flourishes when people plant trees under whose shade they will never sit.”
– Greek Proverb

“Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.”
– Henri J.M. Nouwen

“There’s something just as inevitable as death. And that’s life. Think of the power of the universe… turning the Earth, growing trees. That’s the same power within you. If you’ll only have the courage and the will to use it.”
– Charlie Chaplin

“For me, success is not a public thing. It’s a private thing. It’s when you have fewer and fewer regrets.”
– Toni Morrison

“Every storm runs out of rain.”
– Maya Angelou

“When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.”
– David Graeber

“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“I used to think the top global environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought with 30 years of good science we could address those problems, but I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy – and to deal with these we need a spiritual and cultural transformation and we scientists don’t know how to do that.”
– Gus Speth

Όλα όσα λες, «μιλούν» για σένα. Ιδίως όταν μιλάς για τους άλλους…
– Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry

“The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.”
— David Ogilvy

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Wonderful things can happen when your brain is empty.”
– Maira Kalman

“Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome”
– Charlie Munger

“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly… Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them…throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you…trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly…on tiptoes and no luggage…completely unencumbered.”
– Aldous Huxley

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I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.

– Vita Sackville-West

It’s so easy, To think about Love, To Talk about Love, To wish for Love, But it’s not always easy, To recognize Love, Even when we hold it …. In our hands.

– Jaka

Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.

– Robert Sexton

Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a heaven in hell’s despair.

– William Blake

To see her is to love her,
And love but her forever;
For nature made her what she is,
And never made anither!

– Robert Burns

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

– Oscar Wilde

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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Γενικότερα σημειώνεται ότι οι αναρτήσεις σε Μέσα Κοινωνικής Δικτύωσης δεν συνιστούν γεγονότα.

“Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow… The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward. I would tell all of you watching this screen: Before you go to bed, write a four line poem. Make it as good as you can. Don’t show it to anybody. Put it where nobody will find it. And you will discover that you have your reward.”

– Kurt Vonnegut

Κυνηγώντας ένα δάσος με πουλιά
τα παιδικά τετράδια αριθμητικής
γίναν σιδερένια παράθυρα

– Δημήτρης Μαστοροδήμος

“For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.”

– Henri Cartier-Bresson

“When you focus on your past, that’s your ego. When you focus on your future, that’s your pride. When you focus on the present, that’s humility.”

– Giannis Antetokounmpo

The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.

– Edward Gibbon

although there is the road
the child walks
in the snow

– murakami kijo (1865-1938)

“See all human behavior as one of two things: either love, or a call for love.”

– Marianne Williamson

Finally we do become wise, but then it’s too late.

“I belong everywhere I go, no matter where it is, or who it I am with, as long as I never betray myself. The minute I become who you want me to be, in order to fit in and make sure people like me, is the moment I no longer belong anywhere.”
– Brene Brown

Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive by any random means, as a parasite, a moocher or a looter, but not free to succeed at it beyond the range of the moment—so he is free to seek his happiness in any irrational fraud, any whim, any delusion, any mindless escape from reality, but not free to succeed at it beyond the range of the moment nor to escape the consequences.

• Sometimes paraphrased as “You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”

– Ayn Rand

Do not use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe, to create, to learn, to think and to grow.

• Do what interests you the most.• Spend time with nature. • Ask questions. • Never stop learning. • Don’t pay attention to what others think of you. • Read everyday. • Study hard. • Teach others what you know. • Make mistakes and learn. • It’s Okay to not know things!

– Prof. Feynman

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

– Winston Churchill

We cannot negotiate with people who say what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

– John F. Kennedy

To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.

– Mark Nepo

Το γέλιο είναι ήλιος φωτεινός, που αποδιώχνει το χειμώνα από το πρόσωπό μας.

Η υπερηφάνεια μεγαλώνει με την αμάθεια. Έτσι, οι έχοντες πιο μικρές γνώσεις, έχουν πάντα πιο μεγάλη υπερηφάνεια.

Τα μεγάλα πνεύματα με λίγα λόγια λένε πολλά, ενώ τα μικρά με πολλά λίγα ή τίποτε.

Απ’ όλους τους κλέφτες οι μωροί είναι οι χειρότεροι, σου αφαιρούν χρόνο και διάθεση.

Η αλαζονεία παρεμποδίζει την μάθηση.
Και ο πιο μακρύς δρόμος με το πρώτο βήμα αρχίζει.
Στον δειλό και δισταχτικό όλα είναι αδύνατα, γιατί έτσι απλώς του φαίνονται.

Όταν κτυπά την πόρτα ο θυμός, τις περισσότερες φορές είναι για να αποχαιρετήσεις την λογική.

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There are four kinds of business: tourism, food service, railroads, and sales.
And hospitals/manufacturing.
And air travel.

Michael Scott

I speak of that justice which is based solely upon human conscience, the justice which you will rediscover deep in the conscience of every man, even in the conscience of the child, and which translates itself into simple equality. This justice, which is so universal but which nevertheless, owing to the encroachments of force and to the influence of religion, has never as yet prevailed in the world of politics, of law, or of economics, should serve as a basis for the new world. Without it there is no liberty, no republic, no prosperity, no peace! It should therefore preside at all our resolutions in order that we may effectively cooperate in establishing peace.

Mikhail Bakunin

“Make sure you know what makes you happy, and don’t forget it.”

― Derek Sivers ―

In nature, there is something called the food chain;
It is where the shark eats the little shark,
and the little shark eats the littler shark
and so on and so on and so on and so on
until you get down to the single cell shark.

– Michael Scott

“Once we’re thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it’s only here that the new and the good begins.”

– Leo Tolstoy

“Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow… The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward. I would tell all of you watching this screen: Before you go to bed, write a four line poem. Make it as good as you can. Don’t show it to anybody. Put it where nobody will find it. And you will discover that you have your reward.”

– Kurt Vonnegut

“Home is not where you are born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease”.

― Naguib Mahfouz

“Whatever love you can get and give. Whatever happiness you can provide. Every temporary measure of grace. Whatever works.”

― Woody Allen

“Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.”

– Leo Tolstoy

“If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.”

– Alan Watts

“Don’t ignore what you know in your heart.”

– Bianca Sparacino

“You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.”

– Pema Chödrön

My philosophy is basically this.
And this is something that I live by.
And I always have. And I always will.
Don’t ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone,
for any reason, ever, no matter what.
No matter where or who, or who you are with,
or where you are going, or where you’ve been,
ever.
For any reason, whatsoever.

– Michael Scott

I am a physical object sitting in a physical world. Some of the forces of this physical world impinge on my surface. Light rays strike my retinas; molecules bombard my eardrums and fingertips. I strike back, emanating concentric air waves. These waves take the form of a torrent of discourse about tables, people, molecules, light rays, retinas, air waves, prime numbers, infinite classes, joy and sorrow, good and evil.

– Willard Van Orman Quine

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

– C.G. Jung

Like sailors we are, who must rebuild their ship upon the open sea, never able to dismantle it in dry dock or to reconstruct it there from the best materials.

– Otto Neurath

“To make living itself an art, that is the goal.”

– Henry Miller

Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.

– Immanuel Kant