Campodonico Italia Quotes & Sayings

I don't consciously try to be a role model, so I don't know if I am or not. That's for other people to decide. — Wilma Rudolph

When you are unconditionally open and soft in your heart while your self empties and while your self fills, you live fulfilling the law of containment. — John De Ruiter

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. — Vittorio Alfieri

A library should be like a pair of open arms. — Roger Rosenblatt

For instance, if you woke up in the middle of the night and saw a masked woman trying to crawl through your bedroom window, you might call your mother or father to help you push her back out. If you found yourself hopelessly lost in the middle of a strange city, you might ask the police to give you a ride home. And if you were an author locked in an Italian restaurant that was slowly filling up with water, you might call upon your acquaintances in the locksmith, pasta, and sponge business to come and rescue you. — Lemony Snicket

Observe any meetings of people, and you will always find their eagerness and impetuosity rise or fall in proportion to their numbers. — Lord Chesterfield

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony. — Renzo Piano

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that's such a downer, and people hate that topic. It's not that vulnerability is the upside, but it's better than shame, I guess. — Brene Brown