Lenna Castrissios, Clinical Psychologist - Bilingual office providing psychotherapy, psychological testing, parenting, addictions and career counseling in Kifissia, Greece.
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Health Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Health
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Health Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Health
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Health You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Health
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Health The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Health
"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Health Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Health
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Health To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Health
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Health Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Health
If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Health "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Health
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Health It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Health
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Health "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Health
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Health "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Health
