Dimitris Tzaferis > Dimitris's Quotes

“«Τύψεις πολλές με κυρίεψαν που δεν πρόλαβα σήμερα να δείξω σε όλους πόσο όμορφος και ικανός είμαι. Δεν κοιτάχτηκα στον καθρέφτη για να ρωτήσω αν γύρω μου υπάρχουν οι καθημερινοί και άσημοι ήρωες της ζωής που δεν ζητούν ποτέ κάποιο παράσημο για τον εαυτό τους. Μόνη τους έγνοια να προσφέρουν απλόχερα αγάπη χωρίς κάποια ανταμοιβή. Αυτοί οι άνθρωποι είναι επικίνδυνοι γιατί μου υπενθυμίζουν ότι η ανθρωπιά δεν είναι απλά και μόνο κάποια αξία αλλά τρόπος ζωής, επιθυμητή επιλογή συνύπαρξης ανθρώπου με άνθρωπο σε τούτη την ρημάδα γη.»”
― Dimitris Tzaferis

“Παίζουν ρόλο τα προσωπικά βιώματα στη λογοτεχνία. Όχι ότι χρησιμοποιείς ωραιότερες λέξεις, αλλά σίγουρα πίσω κι από τις πιο απλές λέξεις κρύβεται ψυχή. Αυτό ο αναγνώστης το εισπράττει με έναν μαγικό και άμεσο τρόπο κι αμέσως σημαίνεις κάτι γι'αυτόν, γιατί μόλις έχει κοιτάξει μέσα στην ψυχή σου και αισθάνεται ότι σε ξέρει χρόνια.”
― Ευλαμπία Τσιρέλη

“Η δημιουργικότητα είναι μια επίπονη και εξαντλητική διαδικασία. Ο δημιουργός βιώνει εσαεί, αλλεπάλληλες εγκυμοσύνες και τοκετούς, που τον εξαντλούν και τον "αδειάζουν". Πάντα όμως επιζητά να ζήσει ξανά και ξανά αυτή την εμπειρία.”
― Ευλαμπία Τσιρέλη (Evlampia Tsireli)

“Σε μια παρέα ηλιθίων, ο έξυπνος φαίνεται τρελός.
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In a group of idiots, the smart guy seems crazy.”
― Ευλαμπία Τσιρέλη

“Make your life fascinating as a book.
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Κάνε τη ζωή σου συναρπαστική σαν βιβλίο.”
― Ευλαμπία Τσιρέλη

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...”
― Keri Hulme, The Bone People

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

“It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical inventions has achieved on this earth, where he first appeared as a weakly member of the animal kingdom, and on which each individual of his species must ever again appear as a helpless infant... is a direct fulfilment of all, or of most, of the dearest wishes in his fairy-tales. All these possessions he has acquired through culture. Long ago he formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods. One may say, therefore, that these gods were the ideals of his culture. Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself. But only, it is true, in the way that ideals are usually realized in the general experience of humanity. Not completely; in some respects not at all, in others only by halves. Man has become a god by means of artificial limbs, so to speak, quite magnificent when equipped with all his accessory organs; but they do not grow on him and they still give him trouble at times... Future ages will produce further great advances in this realm of culture, probably inconceivable now, and will increase man's likeness to a god still more.”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

“All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?”
― H. Rider Haggard, She

“Δεν θα αλλάξουμε εμείς τους ανθρώπους από τις πεποιθήσεις τους. Είναι αυταπάτη αν το νομίζουμε αυτο. Ούτε είναι σωστό να κρίνουμε κάποιον με βάση τη δικιά μας ιδεολογία. Η απόφαση για οτιδήποτε είναι αποκλειστικά δική μας και η όποια αλλαγή ξεκινά πάντα μέσα από τα βάθη της ψυχής μας αρκεί να το νιώθουμε ότι έτσι αποκτά αληθινή χαρά η ζωή μας.”
― Dimitris Tzaferis