Luigina Sgarro Quotes

Our age: more "communication experts" that important things to say.

There is no worse thing that can be done to some people than to show them a solution to the problems they complain about.

I don't think I would like to be immortal, not out of boredom about life but out of curiosity about death.

In long-standing relationships, sometimes, it's not that the other person become marginal, rather you tend to consider your partner a part of yourself and, as for your arm, even if you never say how important it is to you, it would be terrible if it wasn't there.

We really love someone when we miss even the things we don't like of them.

Great men when they get power become even greater.
Little men whent they get power become even smaller.
Unfortunately little men tend to aspire to power more than great ones.

I am always looking for rainbows, literally and metaphorically, only that I am starting to think that I could learn more from my journey if, from time to time, I were brave enough to stay in the rain longer.

Many do not see that not to have dreams is far worse than seeing that their dreams do not come true.

Reading a great novel gives the same feeling you have when you fall in love.

We do not have to do with others as "they really are" but with our idea of them.
This means that the experience of loss occurs both when we really lose someone and when this someone, for whatever reason, no longer corresponds to the idea we had of him.
It is an inner grief just as strong and from which we often defend ourselves, as long as we can, through denial.
Denial ends when the energy needed to deny becomes superior to what it takes to process the loss and move on.

Some revolutions resemble restorations, at least at first glance.

Perhaps, in the end, only those who really made us laugh can really make us cry.

What we really cannot forgive others it is not that they don't do what we want them to do but that they don't do it willingly.

At first, the wings weighed more than the chains, because with the chains we were not required to fly

I'm glad I do not have a rebellious nature, so I am not forced to do things just because others do not want.

There is one thing worse than making a thing wrong: doing badly a right thing.

There is no communication that is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.

Almost no one reads poems, almost everyone listens to songs. And if songs were, nowadays, a way to get people to poetry and poetry to people?

That pain is sometimes necessary to stay alive is something that we accept much more easily when it comes to avoiding the death of our body than when it comes to avoiding the death of our soul.

Sometimes to guide my choices is not the validity of the arguments of a party but the stupidity of the other arguments.

Last Sunday I went to an art exhibition, among the visitors there was a guy with one leg missing. He had two crutches with which he moved nimbly among the visitors. I looked at him in admiration, wondering how easy it looked. Then it occurred to me that many of us are like that, we have got used to living without pieces of our heart and soul and we go on as if nothing had happened. And, looking at us from the outside, it seems easy.

Insecurity takes on various disguises. Cockiness and arrogance are among the most common.

Autumn is an interesting season, even in the metaphor of life, is a time of decline, of loss, but also intense and haunting beauty.
Some places, like some people, never are, or have been, as beautiful in their fall.

If you want to foresee the behavior of someone, their personality is a better predictor than their intelligence.

When we miss someone, often, what we really miss is the part of us that with this someone awakens.

Unfortunately, love is more often an alibi than a reason.

Relationships are tested by distance, love is put to the test by closeness.

In hate feeling there is a more or less subtle estimation component.
You do not hate those who take advantage or prevails over someone who is incapable or weak (albeit temporarily), you can at most despise them.

The love of the present is just a love of the past that hasn't had enough time.

When you feel you are incomplete you can always console yourself with the idea of being infinite.

We are vulnerable, not fragile, but our desire to go through life without feeling pain makes us feel fragile.

We spend most of our lives looking for reassurance from others until we find that others are looking for reassurance from us. And somebody has to stop this.

People aren't things., we cannot lose them nor someone can take them away from us. They choose to leave.

It may happen that we miss people that we took care of more than we miss those who took care of us, because the desire to love and the search for meaning, together, are stronger than the desire to be loved.

If we lived the plans we do more as bets than as forecasts, we would be less anxious and more prepared for the unexpected.