Katerina Kostaki > Katerina's Quotes

“Living as an entity under a filled with stars sky and seeking for intuition, a voice whispers from your heart, for soul is unchained from whatever pulls it down, while what she is craving for is but only Ascension towards Divine ”.”
― Katerina Kostaki, Cosmic Light

“We are just particles of the Universe;Our true story is written upon the Stars dear...
Life is just an experience ,an experiential evolution .So simple :)”
― Katerina Kostaki, Cosmic Light

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Each day makes the difference !”
― Katerina Kostaki, Cosmic Light

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti

“This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
“Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving”
― Kahill Gibran, The Prophet

“and what happens around us ,simply happens because we haven't learned to love .
Till this moment ,people would have to go through the same paths ,experience similar events ,blinded ,full of wrath,imprisoned and bounded by themselves.
They will star at their fellows seeing what they are unable to see on themselves....Themselves!”
― Katerina Kostaki, Cosmic Light

“και όλα όσα συμβαίνουν γύρω μας ,συμβαίνουν ,γατί απλά δεν μάθαμε να αγαπάμε .
Μέχρι εκείνη την στιγμή,οι άνθρωποι θα τριγυρνάνε στα ίδια μονοπάτια,θα ζούνε τις ίδιες καταστάσεις,τυφλωμένοι,πικραμένοι και φυλακισμένοι,δέσμιοι του εαυτού τους.
Θα βλέπουν στους συνανθρώπους τους αυτό που δεν μπορoύν να δούν στον εαυτό τους ...τον εαυτό τους .”
― Katerina Kostaki, Συμπαντικό φως

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

“Ithaka

As you set out for Ithaka
hope the voyage is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:
you’ll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.

Hope the voyage is a long one.
May there be many a summer morning when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you come into harbors seen for the first time;
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
to buy fine things,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
sensual perfume of every kind—
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
and may you visit many Egyptian cities
to gather stores of knowledge from their scholars.

Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you are destined for.
But do not hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you are old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you have gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.

Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you would not have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.

And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you will have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.”
― C.P. Cavafy, C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions

“Most people have no idea how good their body is designed to feel.”
― Kevin Mark Trudeau

“You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

“Watch through the clarity of your mind ,the clear essence of your soul and judge accordingly.
Your Inner Voices state the Truth and only the Truth.
Let not anything interfere between your heart and mind.
Let not anything break the Silence that comes within and promote Spirit .
BECAUSE what matters is to promote Spirit .

Voices from within”
― Katerina Kostaki, Cosmic Light

“The Poetry of Love

We see the world with the eyes of a small child.
We visualize the beauty of the world with an unique magic sense,and unfold our deeper feelings and expectations diffusing the seizing negative forces that stretch out their threatening tentacles.
We give blow and shape in our dreams.
We seek for Love through unfamiliar new people and new experiences. Love is a vivid spirit, a big breath that touches upon each piece of our existence, our each cell…
Love affiliates a lot of forms, exists and fits everywhere.
Each flight of a small bird, the flutter of an incredible beauty butterfly, the stones wetted by waters of Aquamarine River, the branches of the trees that dally with the blow of wind, all these is the Spirit of Love.
When you love in a genuine way, love everything.
You are not bothered by the babble of Nature and the strange reactions of people.
You hear the sounds of everyday routine with bigger consequence. Overtakes the meanness consequently and with courage.
You seek truth in small things.
You live the each moment as if it's unique.

Love for nature.
Love for life.
Love for people.”
― Katerina Kostaki, Cosmic Light

“Η Ποίηση της Αγάπης"

Βλέπουμε τον κόσμο με τα μάτια ενός μικρού παιδιού. Οραματιζόμαστε την ομορφιά του κόσμου με μια μοναδική μαγική αίσθηση.
Ξεσκεπάζουμε τα βαθύτερα μας αισθήματα και προσδοκίες αφοπλίζοντας τις πολιορκητικές αρνητικές δυνάμεις, που απλώνουν τα απειλητικά πλοκάμια τους.
Δίνουμε πνοή και μορφή στα όνειρα μας.
Αναζητούμε την Αγάπη μέσα από άγνωστους ανθρώπους και νέες εμπειρίες.
Η Αγάπη είναι ένα ζωηρό πνεύμα, μια μεγάλη ανάσα που αγγίζει, κάθε κομμάτι της ύπαρξης μας, κάθε κύτταρό μας… Η Αγάπη έχει πολλές μορφές , υπάρχει και χωράει παντού.
Κάθε πέταγμα ενός μικρού πουλιού, το φτερούγισμα της πανέμορφης πεταλούδας, οι πέτρες που βρέχονται από τα νερά ενός γαλαζοπράσινου ποταμού, τα κλαδιά των δένδρων που παιχνιδίζουν με το φύσημα του ανέμου, όλα αυτά είναι το πνεύμα της Αγάπης.
Όταν αγαπάς αληθινά, αγαπάς τα πάντα. Δεν σε ενοχλεί η φλυαρία της Φύσης, τα παράξενα των ανθρώπων.
Ακούς τους ήχους της καθημερινότητας με μεγαλύτερη συνέπεια.
Προσπερνάς τις μικροπρέπειες με συνέπεια και θάρρος.
Αναζητάς την αληθινότητα στα μικρά πράγματα.
Ζεις την κάθε στιγμή σαν να είναι μοναδική.

Αγάπη για την φύση.
Αγάπη για την ζωή .
Αγάπη για τον άνθρωπο.”
― Katerina Kostaki, Το ταξίδι της ζωής φέρνει ελπίδες

“What is the Conscious leap?

Conscious leap is a term that refers to a process of change.
It specifies a particular point in the process where a change cannot be undone or reversed.

The leap is the singularity point ,the point of no return.
It will be a fundamental change in everybody's way of living.
Not everybody will remain alive during this turbulent phase.

Thought of the Day”
― Katerina Kostaki, Cosmic Light

“I write because I hope.I write because I have faith.

Hope.Hope alike a fresh flower grows in the sand of my heart .

Faith.Faith alike the Sea will be perishing only when Sea disappears .”
― Katerina Kostaki, Cosmic Light

“In the end
these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you let go?”
― Jack Kornfield, Buddha's Little Instruction Book

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“On Love and Happiness:When someone embarks on his research, if he ever makes it, (there is, in addition, a contingency that he/she will never embark on it), then he sails on a journey, a course that incubates various events.
It's like opening a precious gift that hides myriads of secrets.
Nobody acknowledges its content unless he attempts to inspect it.
Happiness is not always dominated by heavenly chances, blue and green seashores of euphoria and pink clouds of serenity.
Happiness does not dwell in luxurious mansions and expensive cars neither in glamorous appearances.
Many times Unhappiness and loneliness lurk behind the ledges of luxury and surface brightness.
There are so many examples around us, in newspapers, magazines, television and radio of people who are plunged in uncertainty, grief and insecurity.

I wonder why this is.”
― Katerina Kostaki, Cosmic Light

“On Love and Happiness: Happiness is created within us. It flourishes in emotions, the very important human emotions.”
― Katerina Kostaki, Cosmic Light

“Between me and you barriers abide and irresistible truths;how can I come out if not become the light that penetrates matter?
In the shadows nothing exists except a burning flame to flow in the dreams.”
― Katerina Kostaki, Cosmic Light

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
― Émile Zola

“Neleus...

The son of Poseidon!

A birth that came from the mate of a god and a mortal woman.

Not plain at all!

So it was, when the gods love, mate as humans with humans!

From such a union two children were born, both boys.

Their mother placed them in a small boat, and dropped it into the sea.

The sea loved and saved them, children of Neptune were anyway!

The river itself is connected with the sea, fresh water with salt, the land and the sea...

"The sea herself guided us like legendary heroes into this new place ..".

It couldn't be differently.

Children of the Gods aren't we, our race? Have similar origin and similar history! Could not abandoned us, prey and exposed, like the two babies?”
― Katerina Kostaki, Το ταξίδι της ζωής φέρνει ελπίδες