Michalopoulos Quotes & Sayings

In order to faster become the person I wanted to, I decided to deceive my own dreams. — Angelos Michalopoulos

I have to find out who I am before my doubts discover it first. — Angelos Michalopoulos

Emotional fog is what a man feels when he begins to answer the questions he has not yet dared to ask himself. — Angelos Michalopoulos

It's not darkness that turns off the lights in your life, it's your sadness that does it. — Angelos Michalopoulos

We're going to see more, and we are seeing more, and I'll tell you exactly why. Not because white and black are more likely to get together. Only a third of the seven percent of congregations that are interracial are black and white. — Michael Emerson

How will I ever learn to forget
what I can no longer delete? — Angelos Michalopoulos

There are no insensitive hearts, just hearts that don't find it profitable anymore to feel. — Angelos Michalopoulos

How is it possible, as you get to know someone better, to realize how good his past is at not letting you find out anything more about him? — Angelos Michalopoulos

We not only don't have fun with what we are supposed to enjoy,
but whatever we don't enjoy has started having fun with us. — Angelos Michalopoulos

I didn't really need to know what my zombie rooster thought of me. — Elizabeth A. Reeves

All he had was nothing, but that was something, and now it had been taken away. — Terry Pratchett

I am more free than I think and more enslaved than I fear. — Angelos Michalopoulos

I am the sum of all the words I've said to you,
I am the sum of all the things I've done to you.
I'm the sum of all my right decisions and all my mistakes,
all my triumphs and all my defeats,
I'm all the moments I dared
and all those I was scared,
all the ugliness I created
and all the beauty I destroyed. — Angelos Michalopoulos

There's no other kind of happiness except the one you think you don't need. — Angelos Michalopoulos

The only thing that is stronger than what I fear
is what I believe in. — Angelos Michalopoulos

When I learned how to calculate, I stopped counting. When I learned how to smile, I stopped being afraid. When I learned to understand what my cowardice wants from me, I stopped retreating. — Angelos Michalopoulos

A story is told of one of the most revered abbots of fourth-century Egypt, Pachomius the Great, who refused to see his sister Maria when she came to visit him. The explanation was his own urgent need to avoid someone who might entangle him in the bonds of family feeling, and he was even praised for his self-control in being able to forgo the pleasure of her visit. It is not surprising that women sometimes found the self-involvement of male ascetics irritating. — Kate Cooper

If you're becoming weary and disillusioned with Australian values, Judeo-Christian values or Western civilisation, I recommend strangers - they're such a glorious, redeeming wilderness to wander into. — Michael Leunig

No matter how many hours you keep undressing yourself you will never be able to take all your clothes off until you first manage to love your nakedness. — Angelos Michalopoulos

Whenever man fights with somebody else he is fighting with his own truth at the same time — Angelos Michalopoulos

The dictatorship of hate has by now completely vanquished the democracy of pleasure. — Angelos Michalopoulos

A fire is born long before its first flame. — Angelos Michalopoulos

I am what my past allows me to be. — Angelos Michalopoulos

We must be careful what we imagine, fear, or hope for. The echoes of our thought live on in eternity. — Robert Fanney

I am the product of any imperfection of mine I have never used to make my life better. — Angelos Michalopoulos

I think I see my life already starting to write on my next decision the adventures of a loneliness which for the first time in years can stand being alone again. — Angelos Michalopoulos

Unfortunately I never learned
how to touch my truth without breaking it. — Angelos Michalopoulos

In a family, no matter how dysfunctional she is, when one member loses, when one becomes smaller, all lose, all end up becoming smaller. — Angelos Michalopoulos

Neither wit nor beauty nor riches can conquer misery, only kindness can. — Angelos Michalopoulos

What do you call a slap that's waiting an inch away from your cheek refusing to back away? A caress — Angelos Michalopoulos

When a man decides to destroy his past,
he automatically ends up destroying the part of his future that he will need the most — Angelos Michalopoulos

Each time you stare at a blank page, you end up staring at yourself. — Angelos Michalopoulos

As long as you create, you are being created. — Angelos Michalopoulos

Living one floor below Paradise. — Angelos Michalopoulos

I want to become the favorite song of my own uprising. I want to see the most forgotten, unused part of my soul the one which for years I kept closed out of spite, find the courage to go up to my mind and start writing liberation slogans across its highest fences. — Angelos Michalopoulos