CALILO PHILOSOPHY
PODCAST
PODCAST
How can one find happiness? Is happiness something you find or something you create yourself? Can we be successful and happy at the same time? How can we become more connected with our truth? These are just a few questions and topics that the Calilo Philosophy podcast strives to answer.
Created by Angelos Michalopoulos, the show centres around its philosophy of “Calilo”, which stands for “Create a Life you Can Fall in love With”, and aims to start a conversation on the ways we can all become more aware, conscious and most importantly, happier human beings. He believes that life doesn’t come with an instruction book… we have to write it ourselves, one mistake at a time; thus, aiming to share what he has learned so far in his own journey of Calilo through this podcast with the hope that his words will provide you with comfort, optimism, truth whenever and if you ever need them.
New episodes will be realised weekly, covering a number of topics such as: self-knowledge, happiness, success, self-acceptance, negativity, human relationships.
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At the end of every day the truth of who we are
brings us the bill to pay
for every word we said and every action we did during it.
When we pay it in full, we see dreams at night
and w...
Why be like lions living the life of cockroaches?
We fail because the demands of greatness are huge
and of failure, none.
We are sad because the demands of happiness are great
and of m...
We either create happiness out of truth,
or sadness out of lies....
True people deserve the beauty of their soul
and fake people - the ugliness of their sadness....
Our happiness is the cost of lying to ourselves
and our loneliness - the cost of lying to others....
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....
Since happiness often has more truth in it that we can bear,
we often choose, by not choosing, to be sad....
There is no lie that ultimately won’t cost more
than the truth it was born to hide....
Life loves to remind us
what we try the hardest to forget....
Life is a vast plain which, in seconds,
can transform itself into an excruciatingly small cell....
The faster we run to escape the person we are,
the harder we stumble on it....
Our sadness is the truth we never told ourselves....
We become as fake as we need to be to feel unhappy....
Life often likes to become an impossible choice
between success and happiness
which most often is won by the people
who choose to defend their beliefs
from the attacks of the next appl...
Silence is the hideout we use
when we don’t know how else to avoid realising
how much more truthful than us our words can be....
When we stop lying, we will become as strong as our truth....
We have more power than we know,
as long as we can bear to live
with the part of our truth it is made from....
We often lose after we win
because truth creates power,
and power creates victories
that hate truth.
Following a victory, winners are willing to believe the lies that people around th...
Truth is the only thing in the world that humans will never defeat....
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....
Our soul is our greatest source of strength,
if only we stopped fearing her
just because we’ve left her unknown....
Fake escapes lead to brand new prison cells
and real ones to old freedoms.
People who escape reality
fall hard onto those weaknesses of theirs
which imprisoned them in it....
The life of sad people
is a permanent escape from the truth
they don’t want to learn....
Wise are the people who realise the value of their every breath,
even if they don’t realise anything else....
The hidden cost of greed is that,
while waiting for the extraordinary,
we miss the opportunity to enjoy the ordinary....
We are a society that,
by producing a lot more lies than it can consume
lives closer to the next teardrop than the next smile....
Afraid are the people who can’t love. As long as I love someone, I fear nobody. I will live by fearing nothing, not because I’m brave, but because, by letting my soul free to love everything, I won’t...
Fall asleep every night having fought everything that wants to make you mean as hard as you can,
while hugging as tightly as you can
everything that wants to make you
as compassionate as you need ...
Be moderate to survive and extreme to enjoy....
As long as we are not proud of ourselves enough to like who we are,
we become our own Trojan horse
that will open the gate for our opponents to invade us and shame us....
Either we say the truth
or we lie and get hunted
by the truth we refuse to say....
We lie to convince ourselves
that we are already the person
we will never succeed in becoming....
Being prisoners of our lies,
we became the prison guards of our truth....
Truth is the ultimate beauty,
no matter how ugly it seems to be....
Since truth loves black or white, happiness hates any version of gray which our lies invent....
With every truth we say to ourselves we defeat our sadness,
and with every lie
we help our sadness defeat us....
Truth is the most exquisite beauty.
Truth is the most exquisite l beauty because it is born to defeat the ugliness in which
our lies have drowned the world....
Genuine people use their truth to become happier, while fake ones are used by their lies
to make themselves so artificial,
they can’t be anything but miserable....
How can there not be so much sadness in the world when we trust our lies
more than we trust our truth?...
People who refuse to defend the truth of who they are,
become as fake as needed to deserve their misery....
We stumble onto what we avoid.
The more vague we try to be,
the more life likes to force us
to decide, define and explain who we are....
At the end of every day the truth of who we are
brings us the bill to pay
for every word we said and every action we did during it.
When we pay it in full, we see dreams at night
and w...
Why be like lions living the life of cockroaches?
We fail because the demands of greatness are huge
and of failure, none.
We are sad because the demands of happiness are great
and of m...
At the end of every day the truth of who we are
brings us the bill to pay
for every word we said and every action we did during it.
When we pay it in full, we see dreams at night
and w...
Why be like lions living the life of cockroaches?
We fail because the demands of greatness are huge
and of failure, none.
We are sad because the demands of happiness are great
and of m...
Liars have all it takes to be sad
because, by fearing the truth,
they end up fearing their own soul that produces it....
To protect ourselves from what we shouldn’t know,
we live by learning a lot and forgetting even more....
Life doesn’t come with a manual.
We have to write it ourselves, one mistake at a time....
It’s easier to go around the world than around our souls....
As long as we don’t learn our weaknesses,
we will be the faithful employees of our sadness....
Knowledge is the defeat of the unknown
and self-knowledge, the defeat of sadness....
The most beautiful calmness is born when fear gets explained....
People who hate the reality they live in,
because it has more truth in it than they would like,
tell lies to escape from it
and often end up becoming as fake as they need
to feel unsuc...
...
Life has two choices and countless excuses....
As long as we choose not to learn our weaknesses,
we will never discover all we can accomplish with our strengths....
Every time we tell the truth to ourselves,
we honor the person we have the ability to be
and every time we lie to ourselves
we spit in their face....
Winners and happy people discover their strengths
before their weaknesses discover them.
The rest are doomed
to keep on hunting and getting hunted....
We need most what we most lack....
If we don’t know who we are,
we will find it under the lies
we’ve told ourselves to hide it.
That's why the lies we tell ourselves
know better than anyone the truth about who we are....
Let us stop making excuses
that we can’t find out who we are.
We will find out who we are,
when we begin telling ourselves the truth so we can uncover all the lies
we’ve been telling ourse...
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....
Extreme self–confidence breeds
either gigantic triumphs or shocking disasters, but nothing in between....
In our quest to look charming,
we often become as fake as it takes to feel ugly....
Why be like lions living the life of cockroaches?
We fail because the demands of greatness are huge
and of failure, none.
We are sad because the demands of happiness are great
and of m...
Thankfully, there will never be a shortage of people
who want to build a world where a smile defeats a swearword,
where the truth of a “yes”
defeats the hypocrisy and dishonesty of a “mayb...
We adore mediocrity more than we hate it because it’s very easy to be mediocre, much more difficult to be good
and unbearably hard to be perfect....
Beauty is the liberation from ugliness....
Thankfully, there will never be a shortage of people
who want to build a world where a smile defeats a swearword,
where the truth of a “yes”
defeats the hypocrisy and dishonesty of a “mayb...
I will live by doing my best to be as honest as my soul,
because every time I stood to be as real as my truth,
as emotionally solid as my soul
and as pure as my beliefs,
I realised wha...
Beauty is born to defeat the sadness that ugliness produces....
Afraid are the people who can’t love. As long as I love someone, I fear nobody. I will live by fearing nothing, not because I’m brave, but because, by letting my soul free to love everything, I won’t...
Happiness will go where truth already is....
Seeing the ugliness, whatever form it takes - malice, misery, aggression, negativity - constantly defeating the happiness of the people around me and seeing how much useless misery is born in the worl...
Let us live producing beauty
or celebrating the beauty others have produced....
Every moment we enjoy life,
we defeat the ugliness our weaknesses produce, without even having to fight them....
When logic hits the brakes,
pleasure accelerates....
The most beautiful moments of our life are those when we feel so content
and proud of the truth of who we are, that we no longer feel the slightest need to lie to ourselves....
Life is the art of managing the negative. Happiness is the proper management of misery. Victory is the proper management of defeat. Beauty is the proper management of ugliness. Strength is the proper ...
It’s often more profitable to become someone else, if you don’t mind the misery
that comes from deserting who you are....
Celebrate happiness and explain sadness.
To enjoy life, let’s celebrate beauty
by showering the people around us with our happiness and disarm ugliness
by explaining our sadness to ourselves,...
Beauty is born to defeat the sadness that ugliness produces....
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 make...
Ugly is a beauty that doesn’t make
the world around it happier....
To win the battle against the ugliness around us,
we must first believe in our own beauty....
Our greatest beauty
is the part of our ugliness
we don’t allow to become
the sadness of the people around us....
Beauty punishes those people who force it
to make them charming rather than happy....
The beauty we create for the world around us will often introduce us for the first time
to the part of our own character
we’ve never considered beautiful....
There is so much more beauty around us than we see because our own ugliness
does everything to prevent us from touching it
so we don’t feel comparatively even uglier than we are....
If you want to feel pretty,
become happy....
Let your optimism discover your courage before your pessimism discovers
the part of your cowardice
you claim that isn’t yours....
Let us stop redecorating ugliness
and start beautifying it....
Life will allow us to discover its beauty when we stop demanding
that it becomes even more beautiful....
Our own ugliness is often the reason
we can’t enjoy the beauty around us....
The pain that the revelation of a truth causes
is analogous to the lies we’ve used to hide it....
How can there not be so much misery in the world when we so often become prisoners of our ugliness instead of the liberators of our beauty?...
Beauty is born to defeat the sadness that ugliness produces....
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 make...
Beauty is born to defeat the sadness that ugliness produces....
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 make...
The more we love, the less we fear.
When we’re not afraid to love,
we fear nothing....
Liars have all it takes to be sad
because, by fearing the truth,
they end up fearing their own soul that produces it....
Nobody becomes happy accidentally.
Happy are the people who don’t believe in their sadness....
We either create happiness out of truth,
or sadness out of lies....
True people deserve the beauty of their soul
and fake people - the ugliness of their sadness....
We feel happy when we deserve our happiness....
Sweat + security + truth = happiness....
Victory by explanation.
Strength is the explanation of weakness.
Happiness is the explanation of sadness....
We live at the mercy of everything we leave unexplained....
As long as we choose not to learn our weaknesses,
we will never discover all we can accomplish with our strengths....
Start your souls!
Start your souls and throw away the key so you will never turn them off again....
If success and happiness were free,
then all the people in the world
would be extremely successful and deliriously happy while failure and sadness
would have long disappeared
from the face...
Happiness is born to break the barriers
invented by sadness....
Miserable people hate happy ones
even more than they hate their own misery....
Let's discover the blue of the sky
before its gray discovers us.
Let's learn our the truth about ourselves before our lies make us forget who we are. Let's conquer the peak
before the abyss c...
As long as we refuse to discover
the real reason we are sad,
we will be the defenders of our sadness....
Happy are the people who have reached a point in their lives
where they don’t feel the slightest need to lie to themselves....
The heaviest burden in the world to carry
are the five triumphs of our weaknesses:
the lies, mistakes, defeats, the shame of who we are, and the misery we allow them to produce on our behalf....
If happiness had rules, it would be miserable....
Happiness is the only fortune that is so valuable,
it cannot be measured....
The most beautiful happiness
is one born to break the limits imposed on it by the sadness of the people around....
Our addiction to lies
makes us dumber than our sadness....
Smiles are born to help the tears
find reasons to be happy....
Let us be more careful with every word we say
and every action we do,
since we will end up living in the ugliness or the beauty we allow them to create on our behalf....
A smile is born every time
we discover a reason to be happy before a reason to be sad discovers us....
Only genuine people,
people who have told themselves the truth and don’t pretend they are someone else, fit inside the person they really are.
The rest constantly fight and fail,
ending up li...
Beauty is born to defeat the sadness that ugliness produces....
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 make...
Beauty is born to defeat the sadness that ugliness produces....
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 make...
The more we love, the less we fear.
When we’re not afraid to love,
we fear nothing....
The more we love, the less we fear.
When we’re not afraid to love,
we fear nothing....
Liars have all it takes to be sad
because, by fearing the truth,
they end up fearing their own soul that produces it....
Let your optimism discover your courage before your pessimism discovers
the part of your cowardice
you claim that isn’t yours....
Let us stop redecorating ugliness
and start beautifying it....
The more we love, the less we fear.
When we’re not afraid to love,
we fear nothing....
Liars have all it takes to be sad
because, by fearing the truth,
they end up fearing their own soul that produces it....
To protect ourselves from what we shouldn’t know,
we live by learning a lot and forgetting even more....
We live surrendering our happiness to the unknown.
To protect our delusions from the truth,
and our ego from its next rendezvous with defeat,
we continuously get better at producing the un...
We've made ignorance our favourite excuse for not living....
Nobody becomes happy accidentally.
Happy are the people who don’t believe in their sadness....
Our happiness is the cost of lying to ourselves
and our loneliness - the cost of lying to others....
When we lie to ourselves,
we invite other people to lie to us....
The huge, indecipherable cost of lying to ourselves
is that we end up attracting
those people we should keep away....
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....
Life is a vast plain which, in seconds,
can transform itself into an excruciatingly small cell....
The faster we run to escape the person we are,
the harder we stumble on it....
A soul’s beauty is the world’s most frequent prisoner....
We are our worst sycophants.
Let us stop imprisoning our happiness in our cowardice to defend
what makes us feel proud of who we are....
A smile is born every time
we discover a reason to be happy before a reason to be sad discovers us....
Life often likes to become an impossible choice
between success and happiness
which most often is won by the people
who choose to defend their beliefs
from the attacks of the next appl...
Silence is the hideout we use
when we don’t know how else to avoid realising
how much more truthful than us our words can be....
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....
Let’s live dancing with the bluest part of the sky
instead of crying on the shoulders of the deepest spot of the abyss....
The hidden cost of greed is that,
while waiting for the extraordinary,
we miss the opportunity to enjoy the ordinary....
Every moment we refuse to live,
we are rehearsing for our death....
We only deserve to enjoy those moments of our lives we respect....
We have one life to live,
one life to enjoy,
one life to create,
and one life to fall in love with....
We belong to every breath of ours.
We belong to every breath of ours
more than they belongs to us....
Happiness is to live by constantly throwing in the garbage
the person that the people around you want you to be
and become who you really are....
Every four seconds our body produces, out of our lungs, the greatest little gift one can give us: the most incredible yet common miracle in the world, our whole life wrapped in a breath!...
Since happiness is our most valuable acquired good, then the factor that deprives us of it - our weaknesses - is the one adversary in the world that we must defeat before we can even begin to fight an...
Happiness is to live by constantly throwing in the garbage
the person that the people around you want you to be
and become who you really are....
We waste a large part of our lives
trying to avoid discovering
how incompetent we are at enjoying it....
We waste a large part of our lives
trying to avoid discovering
how incompetent we are at enjoying it....
The best way to relieve the pain of defeat
is to become as good as we need to win....
The best way to relieve the pain of defeat
is to become as good as we need to win....
Life doesn’t come with a manual.
We have to write it ourselves, one mistake at a time....
Let’s respect our happiness enough to stop donating it to our problems. People who live by throwing smiles into the darkness betray their optimism enough to lose access to their own light....
To rebel against our weaknesses is the most important decision of our life....
Black clouds have an equal right to the sky as its blue does....
Fall asleep every night having fought everything that wants to make you mean as hard as you can,
while hugging as tightly as you can
everything that wants to make you
as compassionate as you need ...
Life has two choices and countless excuses....
Life hates draws as much as we love them.
There are no draws in life,
other than the ones our lies invent....
We feel happy when we deserve our happiness....
Life often likes to become an impossible choice between success and happiness. Life often likes to become an impossible choice between any victory and the greatest victory of all - happiness....
Castles fall from within. No one can defeat us if we are not weak enough to lose. No one can make us sad if we are not weak enough to feel miserable....
We need most what we most lack....
The banner of any great battle
is woven from those questions
we never dared to ask our cowardice....
Only genuine people,
people who have told themselves the truth and don’t pretend they are someone else, fit inside the person they really are.
The rest constantly fight and fail,
ending up li...
I will become the truth of who I really am, and not the lies that are convenient for me, or for others, to be....
We rarely betray that which hurts us all the time:
our weaknesses,
but we so often betray that which will never abandon us: our beliefs....
Often the most rewarding moments of our life are those when we choose not to become our most profitable self,
but the most emotionally honest one....
We either believe in our beliefs
or in the lies we hide them with....
Often the longest trip in the world
is to stay where we are.
Often, the greatest distance in the world is to go nowhere....
Life is a vast plain which, in seconds,
can transform itself into an excruciatingly small cell....
The people who succeed and are happy
are those who, by stopping lying to themselves, become as real as the reality live in....
The banner of any great battle
is woven from those questions
we never dared to ask our cowardice....
The last rebel in the world needs to revolt first....
Happiness is the revolution against ugliness....
How useful are my strengths
if I don't use them to defeat my weaknesses?...
As long as I live not facing my weaknesses
but playing hide and seek with them,
I will be too afraid to feel proud of who I am,
too careful to feel free,
and too cowardly to be happy....
Every moment I choose to defend my happiness
from the attacks of my weaknesses
and those of the people around me,
I feel so proud of who I am
that I feel I’m touching the meaning of my l...
Our worst enemies are the ones we manufacture ourselves....
Fight the problem you face, not yourself....
Weak are those who avoid realizing their weaknesses....
A battle can be won in thousands of different ways,
but lost only by a handful,
each one made or magnified by our weaknesses....
The most eternal defeat of humanity
is that after thousands of years,
we have managed to defeat everyone and everything,
except for our weaknesses....
For thousands of years, by lying to ourselves,
we’ve hidden our weaknesses,
and became so complex that we've ended up unhappy.
Perhaps if we do the opposite, if we tell the truth to ourselv...
The most important battle of our lives
is not to surrender the world we live in
to the sadness our weaknesses produce
and not to let the world’s weaknesses become our sadness....
The invisible battle that shapes the world more than any other,
at any moment, is the battle against our weaknesses.
Since it is easier to lose a battle than to win it,
we end up losing the...
Happiness is a soul’s laughter.
The most beautiful sound in the world is the sound of a person’s laughter
who, having managed to disarm those weaknesses of theirs
that produce their ugline...
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....
To rebel against our weaknesses is the most important decision of our life....
We will enjoy our life when we realize the uniqueness of its every moment....
Since happiness is our most valuable acquired good, then the factor that deprives us of it - our weaknesses - is the one adversary in the world that we must defeat before we can even begin to fight an...
Life often likes to become an impossible choice between success and happiness. Life often likes to become an impossible choice between any victory and the greatest victory of all - happiness....
Castles fall from within. No one can defeat us if we are not weak enough to lose. No one can make us sad if we are not weak enough to feel miserable....
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....
No matter how much we praise strength,
we avoid becoming strong to avoid doing anything that might push us toward our weaknesses....
Let us stop being afraid
to celebrate our joy
just to avoid waking up
the misery of the people around us....
Fight the problem you face, not yourself....
Weak are those who avoid realizing their weaknesses....
Let’s live dancing with the bluest part of the sky
instead of crying on the shoulders of the deepest spot of the abyss....
Let’s live by translating our soul’s beauty into happiness
and not turning her ugliness
into the pain and misery of the people around us....
If I want to be happy,
I will have to allow myself
to become more vulnerable than safe....
People who are afraid
haven’t been anywhere,
no matter how many places they’ve visited....
Let’s respect our happiness enough to stop donating it to our problems. People who live by throwing smiles into the darkness betray their optimism enough to lose access to their own light....
We will enjoy our life when we realize the uniqueness of its every moment....
We choose not to realize the uniqueness of every moment of our lives so as not to feel bad about failure to live it....
We are a society that,
by producing a lot more lies than it can consume
lives closer to the next teardrop than the next smile....
Seeing the ugliness, whatever form it takes - malice, misery, aggression, negativity - constantly defeating the happiness of the people around me and seeing how much useless misery is born in the worl...
Black clouds have an equal right to the sky as its blue does....
Be moderate to survive and extreme to enjoy....
Life is not a rehearsal, it’s the one and only show....
Every four seconds our body produces, out of our lungs, the greatest little gift one can give us: the most incredible yet common miracle in the world, our whole life wrapped in a breath!...
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....
Start your souls!
Start your souls and throw away the key so you will never turn them off again....
If success and happiness were free,
then all the people in the world
would be extremely successful and deliriously happy while failure and sadness
would have long disappeared
from the face...
Let us live producing beauty
or celebrating the beauty others have produced....
Life is the art of managing the negative. Happiness is the proper management of misery. Victory is the proper management of defeat. Beauty is the proper management of ugliness. Strength is the proper ...
The only way to make sure our life is filled to the brim is to overflow it....
It’s often more profitable to become someone else, if you don’t mind the misery
that comes from deserting who you are....
Celebrate happiness and explain sadness.
To enjoy life, let’s celebrate beauty
by showering the people around us with our happiness and disarm ugliness
by explaining our sadness to ourselves,...
We will defeat sadness,
one explanation at a time.
Every moment we manage to explain to ourselves the real reason why we are sad,
we disarm another part of our sadness....
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....
We are only worthy of our dreams
we give birth to as reality....
We live at the mercy of everything we leave unexplained....
Not only we will we not find our happiness
in the misery we cause to those closest to us, but in it we will discover
an even larger part of our own sadness. Often, it is a part of our own sadnes...
Victory by explanation.
Strength is the explanation of weakness. Happiness is the explanation of sadness....
The sky’s blue is made out of every cloud
we refused to throw in it....
The sky’s blue is made out of every cloud
we refused to throw in it....
As long as we are not proud of ourselves enough to like who we are,
we become our own Trojan horse
that will open the gate for our opponents to invade us and shame us....
We stumble onto what we avoid.
The more vague we try to be,
the more life likes to force us
to decide, define and explain who we are....
If we don’t know who we are,
we will find it under the lies
we’ve told ourselves to hide it.
That's why the lies we tell ourselves
know better than anyone the truth about who we are....
In our quest to look charming,
we often become as fake as it takes to feel ugly....
We love doing the same thing
because everything we do for the first time has the answer to every question
we don’t dare ask ourselves....
We love doing the same thing
because everything we do for the first time has the answer to every question
we don’t dare ask ourselves....
We love routine because we hate those surprises that insist on teaching us the truth
of how incompetent we are to deal with change....
No matter how much we praise strength,
we avoid becoming strong to avoid doing anything that might push us toward our weaknesses....
Let us stop being afraid
to celebrate our joy
just to avoid waking up
the misery of the people around us....
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?...
We become the opposite of what we glorify....
We become the opposite of what we glorify....
We are the victims of our comfort.
As long as we choose to do
what is easy rather than what is right, we become victims of our comfort
by making our life temporarily easy and eternally diffic...
We are the victims of our comfort.
As long as we choose to do
what is easy rather than what is right, we become victims of our comfort
by making our life temporarily easy and eternally diffic...
Ease is the enemy of greatness. Ease is the enemy of happiness....
We choose to do what is easy
to avoid facing our weaknesses,
which doing what is right
will almost always force us to confront....
People who choose the ease of lies over the discomfort of truth,
make their life as fake as it needs to become difficult....
Happiness is born to break the barriers
invented by sadness....
Let us be more careful with every word we say
and every action we do,
since we will end up living in the ugliness or the beauty we allow them to create on our behalf....
We will feel the emotions
we create in the people around us.
Have you ever seen happy people
inflict pain on the people next to them?
Have you ever seen sad people dishing out joy to try t...
We will feel what we make others feel.
The misery we inflict on the world around us will become our next tears,
and the happiness we shower it with
will become our next smiles....
We will feel what we make others feel.
The misery we inflict on the world around us will become our next tears,
and the happiness we shower it with
will become our next smiles....
Our body creates our age,
and we create the age we feel we are.
Happiness subtracts and misery adds days to our age. A happy person feels like a five–year–old kid
while a miserable one feels ...
Our body creates our age,
and we create the age we feel we are.
Happiness subtracts and misery adds days to our age. A happy person feels like a five–year–old kid
while a miserable one feels ...
Life is a game of chance
which we will never learn how to play
as long as we allow our weaknesses
to change the rules every time we become good at it....
We become what we feel.
People who enjoy their life remain young, no matter how old they may be....
Aging makes access to sadness easier because the older we get the better we become at using darkness to hide
than using light to discover....
We don’t age, we just keep getting older. As long as we write more than we erase, learn more than we forget,
liberate more than we enslave,
build more than we tear down,
donate more than we k...
We age by betraying our soul....
When we learn our weaknesses
well enough to disarm them,
we will stop living our life by donating to them the most precious asset we own, our time....
Today creates a tomorrow to live
and a tomorrow to waste....
Happiness is the best antidote to aging....
Instead of living ahead of our truth,
we live behind our excuses.
Instead of living ahead of our truth
to protect it from attacks by the reality we live in, we live behind our excuses
to s...
Instead of living ahead of our truth,
we live behind our excuses.
Instead of living ahead of our truth
to protect it from attacks by the reality we live in, we live behind our excuses
to s...
We either tell the truth
or we tell the excuses
which our lies have made for us....
The greatest source of misery in the world are the people who,
unable to get to know their weaknesses as well as needed to disarm them,
keep flooding the world with the ugliness born from the de...
Death is the first time in someone’s life
when the infinite finds a way to become zero....
Death is the first time in someone’s life
when the infinite finds a way to become zero....
There are no draws in life,
except the ones our lies invent....
There are no draws in life,
except the ones our lies invent....
The world is full of so much failure and misery because the first thing we do
when we lose a battle against our weaknesses
is to translate this defeat into malice, anger and pain before tossing ...
The world is full of so much failure and misery because the first thing we do
when we lose a battle against our weaknesses
is to translate this defeat into malice, anger and pain before tossing ...
There is much malice in the world because it is so much easier to lose the next battle with our weaknesses and become mean
than to win it and become kind....
Leave miserable people to their misery. Leave the mean to their meanness.
There is no need to respond to the negativity that mean people throw at us
because we can’t do anything to mean people w...
The value of kindness is proven
by how miserable mean people are....
We either become kind enough to be happy
or mean enough to be sad....
The splendor of a person
is proven by their capability to produce beauty, even when they don’t feel beautiful....
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...
Kindness is the most underrated beauty in the world....
There are people who produce happiness
and share it with the world around them,
some keep it imprisoned inside them
because they are afraid of the truth it is made of, and yet others who stea...
We create beauty every moment
we defend our uniqueness
by defeating that part of our character
which wants to make us more normal than happy....
We create beauty every moment
we defend our uniqueness
by defeating that part of our character
which wants to make us more normal than happy....
We’ll become happy
when we stop becoming
the conquerors of other peoples’ beauty instead of conquerors of our own ugliness....
We’ll become happy
when we stop becoming
the conquerors of other peoples’ beauty instead of conquerors of our own ugliness....
We adore learning without realizing because it makes us feel clever enough not to offend our stupidity
and truthful enough not to offend our lies....
We adore learning without realizing because it makes us feel clever enough not to offend our stupidity
and truthful enough not to offend our lies....
People who live immersed in the mistakes they haven’t made yet,
will make them....
People who live immersed in the mistakes they haven’t made yet,
will make them....
Our future is as optimistic as we are....
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....
Contrary to us, our future never promises, but always delivers.
Our future will give us what we gave it....
People who aren’t afraid of the future
are those who are not afraid of their selves, because they know the truth of who they are....
People who live by both glorifying and mourning
the person they will never become,
throw away in the garbage the person they already are....
How much moderation
the ten happiest moments of our life had? Not much. That is why we remember them....
How much moderation
the ten happiest moments of our life had? Not much. That is why we remember them....
Life is a race between too much and too little, which moderation frequently wins,
but rarely enjoys....
The curse of reckless people
is that they rarely win
and the curse of cautious people
is that they even more rarely
allow themselves to enjoy their victories....
If you’re going to fall moderately in love,
don’t fall in love at all.
If you’re going to believe moderately in your beliefs, don’t believe at all.
If you’re going to feel in moderation,
d...
Never become so small just so you feel large enough....
Never become so small just so you feel large enough....
The dark privilege of age is that, the older we get, the better we become at making mistakes
while convincing ourselves
that we’re making the right decision....
We weave dreams out of infinity
and fears out of zero....
I will live a life without hating,
not because I am kindhearted,
but because I won’t feel the need
to bring down anyone to feel superior,
I won’t feel the need to take away what they own t...
I will live a life without hating,
not because I am kindhearted,
but because I won’t feel the need
to bring down anyone to feel superior,
I won’t feel the need to take away what they own t...
The worst torturer in the world is our best self....
The worst torturer in the world is our best self....
Ugly is a beauty that doesn’t make
the world around it happier....
To win the battle against the ugliness around us,
we must first believe in our own beauty....
We are high–wire walkers
who, while trying to balance
between our two beauties –
what we show we are and what we actually are – do all we can to avoid falling
into our only ugliness....
Genuine people use their truth to become happier, while fake ones are used by their lies
to make themselves so complicated and artificial they can’t be anything but miserable....
If we hate ugliness so much,
why do we use it so often?...
There is one road that malice knows better than anyone: the road to misery....
Perhaps the mistake we make
which has the largest impact on the quality of our life is that, whenever we are unable to touch our beauty, we surrender to our ugliness....
We are the favorite prey of our weaknesses,
even if we have convinced ourselves
that they only attack to hurt the people around us....
Don’t let the ugliness of a person close to you become your ugliness,
nor let their defeats become your pain....
Our greatest beauty
is the part of our ugliness
we don’t allow to become
the sadness of the people around us....
How can there not be so much misery in the world when we so often become prisoners of our ugliness instead of the liberators of our beauty?...
We adore mediocrity more than we hate it because it’s very easy to be mediocre, much more difficult to be good
and unbearably hard to be perfect....
There is one road that malice knows better than anyone: the road to misery....
There is no beauty
that doesn’t reveal the ugliness around it....
There is no beauty
that doesn’t reveal the ugliness around it....
Perhaps the mistake we make
which has the largest impact on the quality of our life is that, whenever we are unable to touch our beauty, we surrender to our ugliness....
Beauty is the liberation from ugliness....
A soul’s beauty is the world’s most frequent prisoner....
The people who succeed and are happy
are those who, by stopping lying to themselves, become as real as the reality live in....
As long as we loathe reality
because it has more truth in it than we would like, we become as fake as needed
to feel unsuccessful and sad....
We lie to invent a reality
that is as real as it must be to not bother us and as fake as it needs to be to comfort us....
The best way to stop feeling failed and miserable is to become good enough
to win and be happy....
We don’t like to take risks because we know that danger, forcing us to prove how much more we believe
in our beliefs than in our lies,
reveals the truth of how afraid
of our weaknesses we are...
We don’t like to take risks because we know that danger, forcing us to prove how much more we believe
in our beliefs than in our lies,
reveals the truth of how afraid
of our weaknesses we are...
Miserable are the people who avoid enjoying the happiness of the world around them
to prevent it from showing and proving to them how comparatively sad they are....
Miserable are the people who avoid enjoying the happiness of the world around them
to prevent it from showing and proving to them how comparatively sad they are....
Every time we compare ourselves with others,
we compare ourselves against our best self....
Fake people feel less because they fear the truth their emotions carry in them....
Fake people feel less because they fear the truth their emotions carry in them....
If you don’t know who to become, be the truth you feel
and not the lies you think of....
The beauty each of us produces
belongs more to the world than to us....
The beauty each of us produces
belongs more to the world than to us....
People who let others define for them
what is right and what is wrong just survive, while people who allow their own beliefs
to define right and wrong
feel so proud of themselves
that they...
People who let others define for them
what is right and what is wrong just survive, while people who allow their own beliefs
to define right and wrong
feel so proud of themselves
that they...
As long as we choose to do what is easy instead of what is right,
we will continue to fail and be miserable....
As long as we choose to do what is easy instead of what is right,
we will continue to fail and be miserable....
If the right choice were the easiest,
then the world would overflow
with happiness and success
and no one would have to try to become better because we would all be already perfect....
Nobody works harder than our laziness to convince us not to try....
Nobody works harder than our laziness to convince us not to try....
We made our laziness our preferred way
to avoid discovering the truth of who we are....
Lazy is one who suffers more
from trying than from losing....
Our cowardice makes a zero for us to hide in
and our courage an infinity to enjoy....
Our cowardice makes a zero for us to hide in
and our courage an infinity to enjoy....
Self–knowledge creates infinity
out of the solutions to our problems and the lack of it creates
a zero out of cheap excuses....
We often like to become
the obligatory children of paradox
and the voluntary parents of the self–evident....
We often like to become
the obligatory children of paradox
and the voluntary parents of the self–evident....
We sacrifice the eternal at the altar of the temporary. As long as we sacrifice the eternal
at the altar of the temporary,
we will keep filling our life
with temporary joy and eternal sadness...
We sacrifice the eternal at the altar of the temporary. As long as we sacrifice the eternal
at the altar of the temporary,
we will keep filling our life
with temporary joy and eternal sadness...
The right choice is usually the opposite of the easy one, because, if the easy choice led to success and happiness, then most people on earth
would be extremely successful and deliriously happy, wh...
We will become victims of our stupidity
before we become victims of our bad luck....
We will become victims of our stupidity
before we become victims of our bad luck....
We’ve become a society
of involuntary spectators of truth,
who choose to rarely realize what they learn....
We’ve become a society
of involuntary spectators of truth,
who choose to rarely realize what they learn....
Any escape route from reality
is a one way street leading
to those weaknesses of ours that created it....
Nothing beats sadness easier
than a smile we believe so much in
that we allow it to show us in which part of our sorrow we have hidden every reason we have to be happy....
Nothing beats sadness easier
than a smile we believe so much in
that we allow it to show us in which part of our sorrow we have hidden every reason we have to be happy....
Time is the form of energy which,
because we understand it less than any other, we end up wasting most of all....
Time is the form of energy which,
because we understand it less than any other, we end up wasting most of all....
The greatest miracles happen
when our mind and our soul
stop fighting each other and become one....
Each one of us can become
a wonderful factory that generates time,
as long as we overcome those weaknesses of ours that constantly try to stop us, disappoint us,
make us throw in the towel an...
Good energy creates infinity
and bad energy creates countless zeros....
We create time every moment of our life
we respect enough not to waste....
We will live and enjoy
only the part of our life we dare to discover....
We waste time by doing as few things as we can to protect ourselves from doing something
that may uncover the truth
of whether we are good enough
to win and be happy
or bad enough to lose ...
Every hour has as many minutes
as our love for life wants it to have....
Time is our ally, not our enemy. The more we antagonize time, the more we get defeated by it....
Our fake self wastes our life
and our true self lives it....
We are obsessed about making our life longer while we do our utmost to make it shorter,
by wasting such a large part of it....
We create the time we don’t waste.
Time not wasted is time created....
Beauty is born to defeat
the sadness that ugliness produces....
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 ugl...
Although we will never give the wheel
of the car we are driving to another person,
we too often end up giving up the wheel of our soul to people who all they want is to drive us to misery....
When we create a life we can fall in love with, the sadness anything negative creates
will be cut in half
and the happiness that anything positive creates will be doubled....
Love makes life easy, indifference makes it difficult, and hatred unbearable....
Happy are those who have created a life
they love so much
that they make it seem easy, even if it is not. Miserable are those who hate their lives so much that everything seems difficult, even i...
Life is a gigantic parade of beauty
that is often interrupted
by many brief demonstrations of ugliness....
Optimism will win the battle that pessimism has lost before it even begins....
Let's stop living
as fugitives of the truth of who we are, by embracing any part of it
that make us better and happier
and changing any part of it
that make us worse and more miserable....
We wear high heels on our self-worth before we parade it to the people around us, so we can seduce them enough
to dissuade them from trying
to discover our real value....
Many of us pretend to be gods
without even knowing how to be human....
“Why” is the most annoying word in the world
because it can become the most useful....
We glorify whatever we don’t want to become....
Our life loves the duality we hate
because it hates the security we adore....
Let's create a life that has countless opponents
and not one enemy....
Let's live by sharing the beauty of our soul with the people around us
and explaining its ugliness
until it no longer makes us feel so sad
that we feel the need to attack them
and make the...
At the end of every day the truth of who we are
brings us the bill to pay
for every word we said and every action we did during it.
When we pay it in full, we see dreams at night
and when we don’t, we see nightmares.
Why be like lions living the life of cockroaches?
We fail because the demands of greatness are huge
and of failure, none.
We are sad because the demands of happiness are great
and of misery, none.
Thankfully, there will never be a shortage of people
who want to build a world where a smile defeats a swearword,
where the truth of a “yes”
defeats the hypocrisy and dishonesty of a “maybe”,
and where the compassion out of which a caress is woven
defeats the hypocrisy the most frightened parts
of our worst-selves keep producing.
I will live by doing my best to be as honest as my soul,
because every time I stood to be as real as my truth,
as emotionally solid as my soul
and as pure as my beliefs,
I realised what it meant to be so in love with your life,
and so proud of who you are,
that you don’t want to be anyone else,
no matter how much more powerful,
attractive and victorious you could become
Beauty is born to defeat the sadness that ugliness produces.
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.
The more we love, the less we fear.
When we’re not afraid to love,
we fear nothing.
Liars have all it takes to be sad
because, by fearing the truth,
they end up fearing their own soul that produces it.
To protect ourselves from what we shouldn’t know,
we live by learning a lot and forgetting even more.
We've made ignorance our favourite excuse for not living.
Nobody becomes happy accidentally.
Happy are the people who don’t believe in their sadness.
We either create happiness out of truth,
or sadness out of lies.
True people deserve the beauty of their soul
and fake people - the ugliness of their sadness.
Our happiness is the cost of lying to ourselves
and our loneliness - the cost of lying to others.
When we lie to ourselves,
we invite other people to lie to us.
The huge, indecipherable cost of lying to ourselves
is that we end up attracting
those people we should keep away.
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.
Since happiness often has more truth in it that we can bear,
we often choose, by not choosing, to be sad.
There is no lie that ultimately won’t cost more
than the truth it was born to hide.
Life loves to remind us
what we try the hardest to forget.
Life is a vast plain which, in seconds,
can transform itself into an excruciatingly small cell.
The faster we run to escape the person we are,
the harder we stumble on it.
Our sadness is the truth we never told ourselves.
We become as fake as we need to be to feel unhappy.
Life often likes to become an impossible choice
between success and happiness
which most often is won by the people
who choose to defend their beliefs
from the attacks of the next applause.
Silence is the hideout we use
when we don’t know how else to avoid realising
how much more truthful than us our words can be.
When we stop lying, we will become as strong as our truth.
We have more power than we know,
as long as we can bear to live
with the part of our truth it is made from.
We often lose after we win
because truth creates power,
and power creates victories
that hate truth.
Following a victory, winners are willing to believe the lies that people around them tell them more than the truth they hear from within for as long as they need to become as weak as necessary to lose.
Truth is the only thing in the world that humans will never defeat.
The hidden cost of greed is that,
while waiting for the extraordinary,
we miss the opportunity to enjoy the ordinary.
We have one life to live,
one life to enjoy,
one life to create,
and one life to fall in love with.
We belong to every breath of ours.
We belong to every breath of ours
more than they belongs to us.
Happiness is to live by constantly throwing in the garbage
the person that the people around you want you to be
and become who you really are.
We waste a large part of our lives
trying to avoid discovering
how incompetent we are at enjoying it.
The best way to relieve the pain of defeat
is to become as good as we need to win.
Life doesn’t come with a manual.
We have to write it ourselves, one mistake at a time.
It’s easier to go around the world than around our souls.
As long as we don’t learn our weaknesses,
we will be the faithful employees of our sadness.
Knowledge is the defeat of the unknown
and self-knowledge, the defeat of sadness.
People who hate the reality they live in,
because it has more truth in it than they would like,
tell lies to escape from it
and often end up becoming as fake as they need
to feel unsuccessful and sad.
Life has two choices and countless excuses.
We feel happy when we deserve our happiness.
Sweat + security + truth = happiness.
As long as we choose not to learn our weaknesses,
we will never discover all we can accomplish with our strengths.
Every time we tell the truth to ourselves,
we honor the person we have the ability to be
and every time we lie to ourselves
we spit in their face.
We need most what we most lack.
The banner of any great battle
is woven from those questions
we never dared to ask our cowardice.
The last rebel in the world needs to revolt first.
Happiness is the revolution against ugliness.
How useful are my strengths
if I don't use them to defeat my weaknesses?
Every moment I choose to defend my happiness
from the attacks of my weaknesses
and those of the people around me,
I feel so proud of who I am
that I feel I’m touching the meaning of my life.
Fight the problem you face, not yourself.
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.
Let’s live dancing with the bluest part of the sky
instead of crying on the shoulders of the deepest spot of the abyss.
If I want to be happy,
I will have to allow myself
to become more vulnerable than safe.
Let’s respect our happiness enough to stop donating it to our problems. People who live by throwing smiles into the darkness betray their optimism enough to lose access to their own light.
To rebel against our weaknesses is the most important decision of our life.
We will enjoy our life when we realize the uniqueness of its every moment.
We choose not to realize the uniqueness of every moment of our lives so as not to feel bad about failure to live it.
We are a society that,
by producing a lot more lies than it can consume
lives closer to the next teardrop than the next smile.
Afraid are the people who can’t love. As long as I love someone, I fear nobody. I will live by fearing nothing, not because I’m brave, but because, by letting my soul free to love everything, I won’t feel the need to hate anyone.
Happiness will go where truth already is.
Seeing the ugliness, whatever form it takes - malice, misery, aggression, negativity - constantly defeating the happiness of the people around me and seeing how much useless misery is born in the world and how much useful happiness is wasted, I grabbed in my hand the most eager "why" I could find and started writing, in the chance that I can defeat ugliness by explaining it. I wanted to understand how we've become so good at being sad, how we've become so good at not only at abandoning the beauty of our soul but asking its ugliness to show the world around us who we are. Every time I struggled with the question of who gives birth to my misery, I stumbled upon my own weaknesses. By writing for others, I learned myself. Nothing is accidental, not even anything that seems to happen by accident. It is no coincidence that there is so much sadness in the world. It exists because, by choosing to do what is easy and not what is right, we don't try to learn our weaknesses as well as we should to prevent them from producing misery or magnifying the misery someone else's weaknesses have produced.
The more I wrote, the more I realized the value of the truth we should tell ourselves in achieving our happiness. Maybe it's time to say no to the lies we tell ourselves and finally tell the truth. This way, we will build self-knowledge, become as self-sufficient as we need to disarm our weaknesses and become happy. Every time we tell the truth to ourselves, we create self-knowledge and every time we lie, we tear it down. We all want to be happy, but we aren’t willing to do everything needed to deserve our happiness. Happiness is the disarming of misery. How can we feel happy though, when we aren't willing to defend our happiness from the onslaught of the ugliness of the world around us? How do we want to live a happy life when we fill it with ugliness? That's what we need to change. CALILO. Create a life you can fall in love with. However, the more we praise change, the more we remain the same, because we know that change often has more truth in it than we can bear. That's why we love to hide in the routine so much.
Life doesn't come with an instruction book. We have to write it ourselves, one mistake at a time. Self-knowledge is the mother of happiness. When we get to know ourselves, we will feel as strong as we need to be to disarm our weaknesses and therefore be able to create beauty by neutralizing the ugliness within us and the ugliness around us. In this way, we will be able to change our lives for the better. When we learn ourselves well enough to disarm our weaknesses, we will allow our strengths to make us as successful and happy as they can. We will therefore create a life that has as little ugliness as possible, a life that has so much beauty that we will want to fall in love with.
Let's tell ourselves the truth in order to drive away the ugliness we have been producing for so many years with our lies. The lies we tell ourselves create ugliness, which in turn, leads to misery. On the contrary, truth creates beauty that leads to happiness. We all have beauty in our souls, as long as we aren't afraid of the truth from which it is made.
Let's live by translating the beauty of our soul into happiness, and not by translating its ugliness into the pain and misery of the people around us. We will then be able to create a world that is as real as it needs to be to feel so beautiful that it overflows with happiness.
Black clouds have an equal right to the sky as its blue does.
Fall asleep every night having fought everything that wants to make you mean as hard as you can,
while hugging as tightly as you can
everything that wants to make you
as compassionate as you need to be happy.
Be moderate to survive and extreme to enjoy.
Every four seconds our body produces, out of our lungs, the greatest little gift one can give us: the most incredible yet common miracle in the world, our whole life wrapped in a breath!
Since happiness is our most valuable acquired good, then the factor that deprives us of it - our weaknesses - is the one adversary in the world that we must defeat before we can even begin to fight anyone else.
Life often likes to become an impossible choice between success and happiness. Life often likes to become an impossible choice between any victory and the greatest victory of all - happiness.
Castles fall from within. No one can defeat us if we are not weak enough to lose. No one can make us sad if we are not weak enough to feel miserable.
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.
Start your souls!
Start your souls and throw away the key so you will never turn them off again.
If success and happiness were free,
then all the people in the world
would be extremely successful and deliriously happy while 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.
Let us live producing beauty
or celebrating the beauty others have produced.
Every moment we enjoy life,
we defeat the ugliness our weaknesses produce, without even having to fight them.
When logic hits the brakes,
pleasure accelerates.
The most beautiful moments of our life are those when we feel so content
and proud of the truth of who we are, that we no longer feel the slightest need to lie to ourselves.
Life is the art of managing the negative. Happiness is the proper management of misery. Victory is the proper management of defeat. Beauty is the proper management of ugliness. Strength is the proper management of weakness. Right is the proper management of wrong.
It’s often more profitable to become someone else, if you don’t mind the misery
that comes from deserting who you are.
Celebrate happiness and explain sadness.
To enjoy life, let’s celebrate beauty
by showering the people around us with our happiness and disarm ugliness
by explaining our sadness to ourselves,
until we’re not sad anymore.
Let’s live by trying hard to celebrate our strengths and even harder to get to know our weaknesses as well as needed to disarm them.
Let’s live by trying hard to celebrate
what gives birth to our happiness
and even harder to find out which weaknesses of ours produce or magnify our sadness,
so we can make the next emotion our soul
give birth to a benevolent expression of our beauty and not a vindictive proof of our ugliness.
We will defeat sadness,
one explanation at a time.
Every moment we manage to explain to ourselves the real reason why we are sad,
we disarm another part of our sadness.
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.
Not only we will we not find our happiness
in the misery we cause to those closest to us, but in it we will discover
an even larger part of our own sadness. Often, it is a part of our own sadness
which we never even knew existed.
The sky’s blue is made out of every cloud
we refused to throw in it.
As long as we are not proud of ourselves enough to like who we are,
we become our own Trojan horse
that will open the gate for our opponents to invade us and shame us.
Either we say the truth
or we lie and get hunted
by the truth we refuse to say.
We lie to convince ourselves
that we are already the person
we will never succeed in becoming.
Being prisoners of our lies,
we became the prison guards of our truth.
Truth is the ultimate beauty,
no matter how ugly it seems to be.
Since truth loves black or white, happiness hates any version of gray which our lies invent.
With every truth we say to ourselves we defeat our sadness,
and with every lie
we help our sadness defeat us.
Truth is the most exquisite beauty.
Truth is the most exquisite l beauty because it is born to defeat the ugliness in which
our lies have drowned the world.
Genuine people use their truth to become happier, while fake ones are used by their lies
to make themselves so artificial,
they can’t be anything but miserable.
How can there not be so much sadness in the world when we trust our lies
more than we trust our truth?
People who refuse to defend the truth of who they are,
become as fake as needed to deserve their misery.
We stumble onto what we avoid.
The more vague we try to be,
the more life likes to force us
to decide, define and explain who we are.
If we don’t know who we are,
we will find it under the lies
we’ve told ourselves to hide it.
That's why the lies we tell ourselves
know better than anyone the truth about who we are.
Let us stop making excuses
that we can’t find out who we are.
We will find out who we are,
when we begin telling ourselves the truth so we can uncover all the lies
we’ve been telling ourselves for years, under which we’ve hidden it.
The truth of who we are is all we hide under the lies we tell ourselves.
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.
Extreme self–confidence breeds
either gigantic triumphs or shocking disasters, but nothing in between.
In our quest to look charming,
we often become as fake as it takes to feel ugly.
We love doing the same thing
because everything we do for the first time has the answer to every question
we don’t dare ask ourselves.
No matter how much we praise strength,
we avoid becoming strong to avoid doing anything that might push us toward our weaknesses.
Let us stop being afraid
to celebrate our joy
just to avoid waking up
the misery of the people around us.
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?
We become the opposite of what we glorify.
We are the victims of our comfort.
As long as we choose to do
what is easy rather than what is right, we become victims of our comfort
by making our life temporarily easy and eternally difficult.
Ease is the enemy of greatness. Ease is the enemy of happiness.
We choose to do what is easy
to avoid facing our weaknesses,
which doing what is right
will almost always force us to confront.
People who choose the ease of lies over the discomfort of truth,
make their life as fake as it needs to become difficult.
Happiness is born to break the barriers
invented by sadness.
Miserable people hate happy ones
even more than they hate their own misery.
Let's discover the blue of the sky
before its gray discovers us.
Let's learn our the truth about ourselves before our lies make us forget who we are. Let's conquer the peak
before the abyss conquers us.
As long as we refuse to discover
the real reason we are sad,
we will be the defenders of our sadness.
Happy are the people who have reached a point in their lives
where they don’t feel the slightest need to lie to themselves.
The heaviest burden in the world to carry
are the five triumphs of our weaknesses:
the lies, mistakes, defeats, the shame of who we are, and the misery we allow them to produce on our behalf.
If happiness had rules, it would be miserable.
Happiness is the only fortune that is so valuable,
it cannot be measured.
The most beautiful happiness
is one born to break the limits imposed on it by the sadness of the people around.
Our addiction to lies
makes us dumber than our sadness.
Smiles are born to help the tears
find reasons to be happy.
Let us be more careful with every word we say
and every action we do,
since we will end up living in the ugliness or the beauty we allow them to create on our behalf.
We will feel the emotions
we create in the people around us.
Have you ever seen happy people
inflict pain on the people next to them?
Have you ever seen sad people dishing out joy to try to make the people around them happier?
We will feel what we make others feel.
The misery we inflict on the world around us will become our next tears,
and the happiness we shower it with
will become our next smiles.
Our body creates our age,
and we create the age we feel we are.
Happiness subtracts and misery adds days to our age. A happy person feels like a five–year–old kid
while a miserable one feels as old as the pyramids.
Life is a game of chance
which we will never learn how to play
as long as we allow our weaknesses
to change the rules every time we become good at it.
We become what we feel.
People who enjoy their life remain young, no matter how old they may be.
Aging makes access to sadness easier because the older we get the better we become at using darkness to hide
than using light to discover.
We don’t age, we just keep getting older. As long as we write more than we erase, learn more than we forget,
liberate more than we enslave,
build more than we tear down,
donate more than we keep for ourselves, hope more than we fear,
we won’t age, we’ll just keep getting older.
We age by betraying our soul.
When we learn our weaknesses
well enough to disarm them,
we will stop living our life by donating to them the most precious asset we own, our time.
Today creates a tomorrow to live
and a tomorrow to waste.
Happiness is the best antidote to aging.
Instead of living ahead of our truth,
we live behind our excuses.
Instead of living ahead of our truth
to protect it from attacks by the reality we live in, we live behind our excuses
to shield ourselves from it.
We either tell the truth
or we tell the excuses
which our lies have made for us.
Death is the first time in someone’s life
when the infinite finds a way to become zero.
There are no draws in life,
except the ones our lies invent.
The world is full of so much failure and misery because the first thing we do
when we lose a battle against our weaknesses
is to translate this defeat into malice, anger and pain before tossing it to the people around us
so it can become their sadness, hoping this way we will feel, compared to them, less miserable.
There is much malice in the world because it is so much easier to lose the next battle with our weaknesses and become mean
than to win it and become kind.
Leave miserable people to their misery. Leave the mean to their meanness.
There is no need to respond to the negativity that mean people throw at us
because we can’t do anything to mean people which they haven’t already done to themselves.
The value of kindness is proven
by how miserable mean people are.
We either become kind enough to be happy
or mean enough to be sad.
The splendor of a person
is proven by their capability to produce beauty, even when they don’t feel beautiful.
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.
Kindness is the most underrated beauty in the world.
There are people who produce happiness
and share it with the world around them,
some keep it imprisoned inside them
because they are afraid of the truth it is made of, and yet others who steal it
from their fellow human beings and become more sad than smart.
We create beauty every moment
we defend our uniqueness
by defeating that part of our character
which wants to make us more normal than happy.
We’ll become happy
when we stop becoming
the conquerors of other peoples’ beauty instead of conquerors of our own ugliness.
We adore learning without realizing because it makes us feel clever enough not to offend our stupidity
and truthful enough not to offend our lies.
People who live immersed in the mistakes they haven’t made yet,
will make them.
Our future is as optimistic as we are.
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.
Contrary to us, our future never promises, but always delivers.
Our future will give us what we gave it.
People who aren’t afraid of the future
are those who are not afraid of their selves, because they know the truth of who they are.
People who live by both glorifying and mourning
the person they will never become,
throw away in the garbage the person they already are.
How much moderation
the ten happiest moments of our life had? Not much. That is why we remember them.
Life is a race between too much and too little, which moderation frequently wins,
but rarely enjoys.
The curse of reckless people
is that they rarely win
and the curse of cautious people
is that they even more rarely
allow themselves to enjoy their victories.
If you’re going to fall moderately in love,
don’t fall in love at all.
If you’re going to believe moderately in your beliefs, don’t believe at all.
If you’re going to feel in moderation,
don’t feel at all.
Never become so small just so you feel large enough.
We weave dreams out of infinity
and fears out of zero.
I will live a life without hating,
not because I am kindhearted,
but because I won’t feel the need
to bring down anyone to feel superior,
I won’t feel the need to take away what they own to feel I have enough,
and I won’t feel the need
to make anyone around me feel ugly
because the world I live in has more beauty than I can enjoy.
The worst torturer in the world is our best self.
Ugly is a beauty that doesn’t make
the world around it happier.
To win the battle against the ugliness around us,
we must first believe in our own beauty.
We are high–wire walkers
who, while trying to balance
between our two beauties –
what we show we are and what we actually are – do all we can to avoid falling
into our only ugliness.
If we hate ugliness so much,
why do we use it so often?
There is one road that malice knows better than anyone: the road to misery.
There is no beauty
that doesn’t reveal the ugliness around it.
Perhaps the mistake we make
which has the largest impact on the quality of our life is that, whenever we are unable to touch our beauty, we surrender to our ugliness.
We are the favorite prey of our weaknesses,
even if we have convinced ourselves
that they only attack to hurt the people around us.
Don’t let the ugliness of a person close to you become your ugliness,
nor let their defeats become your pain.
Our greatest beauty
is the part of our ugliness
we don’t allow to become
the sadness of the people around us.
Beauty punishes those people who force it
to make them charming rather than happy.
The beauty we create for the world around us will often introduce us for the first time
to the part of our own character
we’ve never considered beautiful.
There is so much more beauty around us than we see because our own ugliness
does everything to prevent us from touching it
so we don’t feel comparatively even uglier than we are.
If you want to feel pretty,
become happy.
Let your optimism discover your courage before your pessimism discovers
the part of your cowardice
you claim that isn’t yours.
Let us stop redecorating ugliness
and start beautifying it.
Life will allow us to discover its beauty when we stop demanding
that it becomes even more beautiful.
Our own ugliness is often the reason
we can’t enjoy the beauty around us.
The pain that the revelation of a truth causes
is analogous to the lies we’ve used to hide it.
How can there not be so much misery in the world when we so often become prisoners of our ugliness instead of the liberators of our beauty?
We adore mediocrity more than we hate it because it’s very easy to be mediocre, much more difficult to be good
and unbearably hard to be perfect.
Beauty is the liberation from ugliness.
A soul’s beauty is the world’s most frequent prisoner.
We are our worst sycophants.
Let us stop imprisoning our happiness in our cowardice to defend
what makes us feel proud of who we are.
A smile is born every time
we discover a reason to be happy before a reason to be sad discovers us.
Only genuine people,
people who have told themselves the truth and don’t pretend they are someone else, fit inside the person they really are.
The rest constantly fight and fail,
ending up living in exile from themselves.
I will become the truth of who I really am, and not the lies that are convenient for me, or for others, to be.
We rarely betray that which hurts us all the time:
our weaknesses,
but we so often betray that which will never abandon us: our beliefs.
Often the most rewarding moments of our life are those when we choose not to become our most profitable self,
but the most emotionally honest one.
We either believe in our beliefs
or in the lies we hide them with.
Often the longest trip in the world
is to stay where we are.
Often, the greatest distance in the world is to go nowhere.
The people who succeed and are happy
are those who, by stopping lying to themselves, become as real as the reality live in.
As long as we loathe reality
because it has more truth in it than we would like, we become as fake as needed
to feel unsuccessful and sad.
We lie to invent a reality
that is as real as it must be to not bother us and as fake as it needs to be to comfort us.
We don’t like to take risks because we know that danger, forcing us to prove how much more we believe
in our beliefs than in our lies,
reveals the truth of how afraid
of our weaknesses we are.
Miserable are the people who avoid enjoying the happiness of the world around them
to prevent it from showing and proving to them how comparatively sad they are.
Every time we compare ourselves with others,
we compare ourselves against our best self.
Fake people feel less because they fear the truth their emotions carry in them.
If you don’t know who to become, be the truth you feel
and not the lies you think of.
The beauty each of us produces
belongs more to the world than to us.
People who let others define for them
what is right and what is wrong just survive, while people who allow their own beliefs
to define right and wrong
feel so proud of themselves
that they can’t be anything but happy.
As long as we choose to do what is easy instead of what is right,
we will continue to fail and be miserable.
If the right choice were the easiest,
then the world would overflow
with happiness and success
and no one would have to try to become better because we would all be already perfect.
Nobody works harder than our laziness to convince us not to try.
We made our laziness our preferred way
to avoid discovering the truth of who we are.
Lazy is one who suffers more
from trying than from losing.
Our cowardice makes a zero for us to hide in
and our courage an infinity to enjoy.
Self–knowledge creates infinity
out of the solutions to our problems and the lack of it creates
a zero out of cheap excuses.
We often like to become
the obligatory children of paradox
and the voluntary parents of the self–evident.
We sacrifice the eternal at the altar of the temporary. As long as we sacrifice the eternal
at the altar of the temporary,
we will keep filling our life
with temporary joy and eternal sadness.
The right choice is usually the opposite of the easy one, because, if the easy choice led to success and happiness, then most people on earth
would be extremely successful and deliriously happy, while failure and sadness would have been eradicated from the face of the earth.
We will become victims of our stupidity
before we become victims of our bad luck.
We’ve become a society
of involuntary spectators of truth,
who choose to rarely realize what they learn.
Any escape route from reality
is a one way street leading
to those weaknesses of ours that created it.
Nothing beats sadness easier
than a smile we believe so much in
that we allow it to show us in which part of our sorrow we have hidden every reason we have to be happy.
Time is the form of energy which,
because we understand it less than any other, we end up wasting most of all.
The greatest miracles happen
when our mind and our soul
stop fighting each other and become one.
Each one of us can become
a wonderful factory that generates time,
as long as we overcome those weaknesses of ours that constantly try to stop us, disappoint us,
make us throw in the towel and force us to quit
before we make our world too beautiful for them to bear.
Good energy creates infinity
and bad energy creates countless zeros.
We will live and enjoy
only the part of our life we dare to discover.
We waste time by doing as few things as we can to protect ourselves from doing something
that may uncover the truth
of whether we are good enough
to win and be happy
or bad enough to lose and become sad.
Every hour has as many minutes
as our love for life wants it to have.
Time is our ally, not our enemy. The more we antagonize time, the more we get defeated by it.
Our fake self wastes our life
and our true self lives it.
We are obsessed about making our life longer while we do our utmost to make it shorter,
by wasting such a large part of it.
We create the time we don’t waste.
Time not wasted is time created.