Angelos Michalopoulos > Quotes

“Truths hate wearing condoms!”
― Angelos Michalopoulos, SMALLER THAN ZERO AND LARGER THAN INFINITY: LIVING UNDER A SKY THAT WANTS TO HAVE ONLY BLUE CLOUDS IN IT

“Living one floor below Paradise.”
― Angelos Michalopoulos, The man who has only one truth in him

“We become what we feel.
People who enjoy their life remain young, no matter how old they may be.”
― Angelos Michalopoulos

“I prefer to be surrounded by true ugliness rather than false beauty”
― Angelos Michalopoulos, SMALLER THAN ZERO AND LARGER THAN INFINITY: LIVING UNDER A SKY THAT WANTS TO HAVE ONLY BLUE CLOUDS IN IT

“There are no insensitive hearts, just hearts that don`t find it profitable anymore to feel.”
― Angelos Michalopoulos, The dream that dared to become a man

“Love is when you give everything to protect your loved one from your own sorrow”
― Angelos Michalopoulos, Living a Sorrow Away from Happiness

“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

“Kindness is the most underrated beauty in the world.”
― Angelos Michalopoulos

“Each person is a lottery ticket. We are all stubs of our luck.”
― Angelos Michalopoulos, SMALLER THAN ZERO AND LARGER THAN INFINITY

“I am more free than I think and more enslaved than I fear.”
― Angelos Michalopoulos, The man who has only one truth in him

“It is easy to be kind, generous and human
when we are happy
and extremely hard when we are sad.
In the middle of a celebration everyone loves everyone but at the end of it they are often left alone,
trying to convince their loneliness not to fight with their hatred.”
― Angelos Michalopoulos

“Life doesn’t come with a manual.
We have to write it ourselves, one mistake at a time.”
― 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, The man who has only one truth in him

“We’ll enjoy life when we celebrate as much as we can everything that wants to make it beautiful
and disable as quickly as we can
everything that wants to make it ugly.”
― Angelos Michalopoulos

“Nobody becomes happy accidentally.
Happy are the people who don’t believe in their sadness.”
― Angelos Michalopoulos

“Since liars are afraid of the truth,
they are afraid of their most truthful part, their soul
as much as necessary to avoid feeling
and become dispassionate enough
to become miserable.”
― Angelos Michalopoulos

“After years of lying to ourselves,
we have become so fake and artificial that we've ended up knowing ourselves as little as needed to feel miserable.”
― Angelos Michalopoulos

“Be moderate to survive and extreme to enjoy.”
― Angelos Michalopoulos

“How can we be happy when we have turned our truth, the most loyal ally we have
in the battle against our misery,
into our greatest enemy?”
― Angelos Michalopoulos

“If success and happiness were free,
then all the people in the world
would be extremely successful and deliriously happy and failure and sadness
would have long disappeared
from the face of the earth.
There is no free success and happiness.
We have to give sweat, security and truth
to deserve to be successful and happy.”
― Angelos Michalopoulos

“Happiness is the only fortune that is so valuable,
it cannot be measured.”
― Angelos Michalopoulos

“Every moment we live we either tell ourselves the truth
and become as real as we need to be happy,
or tell ourselves lies
and become as fake as we need to be miserable.”
― Angelos Michalopoulos

“The hidden cost of education
is that, by deifying logic for all the victories it can give us,
we often become too logical to be happy.”
― Angelos Michalopoulos

“Beauty is born to defeat
the sadness that ugliness produces.”
― Angelos Michalopoulos

“Start your souls!
Start your souls and throw away the key so you will never turn them off again.”
― Angelos Michalopoulos

“A person who has many kinds of happiness to choose from usually ends up being miserable”
― Angelos Michalopoulos, Invisible souls, unhappy happinesses

“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, Living a Sorrow Away from Happiness

“We live balancing between
our cowardice and our dreams,
fighting to become the person we always wanted to be, before the person we have become
drown us in their fears.”
― Angelos Michalopoulos

“Life is the celebration of beauty,
but even more so, the celebration of an ugliness
that was never born because it was explained.
Every time we manage to explain to ourselves
what makes us feel ugly,
a celebration of beauty begins.”
― Angelos Michalopoulos

“l will live a life where, at the end of each day,
I won’t even have a single smile in my soul
because I will have smiled them all,
nor a single celebration
because I will have celebrated them all,
I won’t have a single kindness in my soul
because I will have shared them all with the people around me,
or a single hope,
because I will have turned it into a deed.

I will live a life where, at the end of each day,
I won’t have a single moment of meanness, injustice,
humiliation, sarcasm, verbal, or physical violence in my soul,
not because I have never been mean or unjust,
or have never contrived countless humiliations, emotional storms,
sarcasms, swearwords, and punches during it,
but because, by explaining them to myself,
I managed to disarm them
before they became the vengeful missionaries of my ugliness.”
― Angelos Michalopoulos