Ferrucci Quotes

#1. The transition from rebellion to acceptance has an extremely important consequence ... in which we start seeing life as a training school, to teach us what we need to learn.

Piero Ferrucci

#2. To act honestly- even at the risk of saying the unpleasant truth, or of saying no and causing distress to others- if done with intelligence and tact, is the kindest thing to do because it respects our own integrity and acknowledges in others the capacity to be competent and mature.

Piero Ferrucci

#3. The naturalness of life ... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.

Barbara Hepworth

#4. [O]n general principles it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#5. Being kind is the simplest way to become who we really are.

Piero Ferrucci

#6. How often-even before we began-have we declared a task 'impossible'? And how often have we construed a picture of ourselves as being inadequate? ... A great deal depends upon the thought patterns we choose and on the persistence with which we affirm them.

Piero Ferrucci

#7. It's tough never being right.

Eric Shinseki

#8. In 1995, I was thrust into the role of reluctant, flag-waving feminist and emotionally-focused artist/advocate.

Alanis Morissette

#9. It's all really very simple. You don't have to choose between being kind to yourself and others. It's one and the same.

Piero Ferrucci

#10. There is no choice between being kind to others, and being kind to ourselves. It is the same thing.

Piero Ferrucci

#11. The real architect of a life is the hard and almost impossible circumstances one faces.

John Paul Warren

#12. Generosity is, by definition, disinterested." (p.157)

Piero Ferrucci

#13. If kindness has falseness at its base, it is no longer kindness. It is labored courtesy.

Piero Ferrucci

#14. Inspiration comes whenever it wants, even at the most unlikely times and in the most inappropriate situations. Often it arrives bit by bit. Therefore it must be anchored, and this is where a most valuable item makes its appearance: the notebook.

Piero Ferrucci

#15. The universe stands aside for those people who know where they are going ...

Paulo Coelho

#16. The young should not think of themselves as immature and the elderly need not view themselves as feeble. Our minds control our bodies. Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into naka-ima - the eternal present.

H.E. Davey

#17. If we could be sure of everyone and everything, trust would have no value

Piero Ferrucci

#18. The true objective of war is peace.

Sun Tzu

#19. Giving kindness does as much good as receiving it ... Kind people are healthier and live longer.

Piero Ferrucci

#20. So now I know what I have to do. I have to keep breathing. And tomorrow the sun will rise, and who knows what the tide will bring in.

William Broyles Jr.

#21. Bronagh," I said clearly. I hated when foreign people pronounced my name, they completely butchered it. "Bro-nah?" Dark twin correctly sounded it out then muttered about the stupidity of the G being silent.

L.A. Casey

#22. I'm not immune to the charms of the female form. And when I was 17 and I spent every spare minute surfing, most of the girls we hung out with would be topless.

Simon Baker

#23. We can proceed according to the planned itinerary, strenuously trying to make life conform to our needs, or we can adapt to whatever we meet and flow without effort.

Piero Ferrucci

#24. I rap about fighting back. I make it uncomfortable by putting details to it. It might not have been politically correct but I've reached somebody; They relating to me. They relate to the brutal honesty in the rap.

Tupac Shakur

#25. We are used to thinking in terms of what we can teach our children. Maybe we need to ask ourselves what we may learn from them.

Piero Ferrucci

#26. The factors that contributed to my growth were many - finding someone who understood me, exploring the unconscious, awakening my latent love ... but one star is brightest among all: the self. I found the source of livingness inside me, something I didn't even know existed.

Piero Ferrucci

#27. Today was not a day for the sounds of life. Today was for the hollow wind rustling branches, for the rushing of a half-frozen river, for the crunch of snow under her boots.

Sarah J. Maas

#28. it is clear that our very survival, even today, depends upon the acts and kindness of so many people.

Piero Ferrucci

#29. I've noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I'm not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

David Byrne

#30. Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.

Piero Ferrucci