Agapi Stassinopoulos Quotes

The depth of the ocean is calm, but on the surface, there are always waves. If you dive deep in your life, your life can be bliss.

Agapi Stassinopoulos

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• Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Interesting

• The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Talk

• My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• Only silence perfects silence.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Silence
  • Only

• Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • For Him
  • Succeed
  • Love Is

• The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Value
  • Beauty

• When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Thoughts
  • Meditation

• As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Myself
  • Animal
  • Plant

• HeyHey is my favourite app. It's like Instagram but for sound recordings, with little soundbites from people's days. We spend far too much time looking down at our phones, so it's nice to have your head up while you listen to what other people have uploaded.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Home
  • You
  • Yourself

• This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Hope
  • Past
  • Victory

• I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Know
  • Eyes

• The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

  

  Orson Welles
  • You
  • Playing
  • Flying

• The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Challenge
  • Dry
  • Bone

• She waits for me; my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs;I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.

  

  Rain
  • She
  • Earth

• Of all the punctuation marks; he told me ellipses were his favorites.

  

  Patrick Modiano

• Well, we will indeed see how things develop and what will become of our art! In any case, artists should remain apolitical and only think of their work and dedicate all their energies to this work.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Work
  • Art

• No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Value

• My work is about the underbelly of the beauty of nature - and the dark side of nature is its indifference. Nature isn't friendly, nor is it unfriendly - it's the perfect embodiment of the Other.

  

  April Gornik
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Perfect

• Call the world if you please 'The vale of soul-making.'

  

  John Keats
  • World
  • Soul

• I think that the status that you have in life should be reflected in official documents. If you are married, fine, if you are living with someone, fine, if you are single, fine. We don't want to tell people how to live their lives.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Our prayer life will become restful when it really dawns upon us that we have done all we are supposed to do when we have spoken to Him about it. From the moment we have left it with Him, it is His responsi-bility.

  

  Ole Hallesby
  • Life
  • Done
  • Prayer

• Life is so simple, really. Think through what people want, watch what others fail to give them, and provide it. Then bill'em.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • Life
  • Simple
  • Watches

• The depth of the ocean is calm, but on the surface, there are always waves. If you dive deep in your life, your life can be bliss.

  

  Agapi Stassinopoulos
  • Life
  • Ocean
  • Waves