A title illustration by Mikis Mazarakis. In the middle a shape similar to a ball of yarn, painted in red, and around it circles repeatedly in yellow letters the title Every Child a sun Every child a sun. Orange background.

EVERY CHILD A SUN
the first book of aphorisms

by Mikis Mazarakis

 

english svenska

 

2005


The moment you believe there is a possibility
that you might lose your creativity
is the moment this ability
is instantaneously lost




Nothing has ever frightened me
more than fear




Don’t wake the child asleep
but feel free to scream
in the ear of the adult who is




I believe every word that i write.
But I believe none of the words
that I have written.




The trees
are above us




I am a great comedian.
Please laugh.




Every child a sun




I am an alien that has come here
to not save or abduct anyone

 


 

If I were you,
I’d put that auto-biography on hold
until after you’re done

 

 

History never repeats itself.




It’s not very important
to believe your friends
but it’s imperative that you
believe in friends




Truth rarely stays
for longer than it takes to be said




There are insights of such grandeur
that were it possible when using words
to seize even the slightest hint of their significance
it would strike humanity with a thunderous seizure
as easy as the sounds from the sea
swallow the screams from the sea
gull




I suffer from severe withdrawal symptoms.
It is very difficult being addicted
to human beings




The purpose of every system
is its disollution




I am very serious
when I ask you not to take me seriously




Dying
is the fear of death




I never make exceptions
I only make exceptions



Creators of all,
i believe
i entrust
i need.
Please feed
my hunger
quench my thirst
let me sleep
sound
and when the storm comes
whisper in my ear
that all will be well
in due time





According to which belief should I live
today?




Sesame, sesame,
open me




real poetry
is never written


2006






2007


I want patience,
now.




What every mountain needs
is rapid eye movement




Water your child
and she will bloom




chaising insight
is chained insight




The smallest bear
the biggest




Don‘t close your eyes
to the darkness of the world,
it will but make it darker.
But at times
it may be wise
to just squint.




It’s the who never says what he really thinks
who believes others lie
when they do




You are unique,
just like everyone else




Have you never doubted your faith
I’d say that your faith is not a faith




If you see nothing but problems around you,
then the problems aren‘t around you




Trying to solve the problem
is usually almost just as demanding
as keeping it




You
are the project
that you‘re working on




Everything changes
Everything change

 

 


Think again
if you think if
time and time again



You make me pleased
when you do as you please
and do it not
to make me pleased




Not needing admiration
is to deserve it





When the friend dies
that you held to your heart
she hands to you the best of who she was
and if you embrace her parting gift
eternity will to her be given
from your broken heart
and open hands



I don‘t like your point of view
but I like that you help me see mine





Believe that you are someone
but don’t believe that it is something
to be someone




Talking is silver
Walking is gold




The best juggler i ever saw
did it with just one ball
and made it look very simple
not letting it fall




Everything is rarely perfect
but everything is always perfect



You haven‘t failed
until you yourself say so




If conflict is your fuel, it might be wise
changing to a more climate friendly
alternative

 

 


Look up
if you don‘t look up
to anyone




What‘s difficult is not changing the world,
but to not be paralyzed
by knowing that every step you take
changes it




Ask not
if you can make a difference or not,
but ask instead what difference
you are already making




The choice is not helping yourself or helping others,
but helping us all or letting us all
fall




A sure way of making less good
than he who never stretches his hand
is to stretch it so far
that the arm breaks in two




Bad sleep
means bad awake



I occasionally love
that which I like
more than that
which I love




You, more than anyone else,
need to hear what you
have to say




Only you
only god
knows your strength
knows the weight
on your shoulders
knows your fight
knows what you
what god looks like
when enfolded




What you need,
someone has.
What someone needs,
you might have.




all these people strong
all these people great
make me dazzled
make me puzzled




What is petty
is not to easily fall into tears
but believing that you aren‘t
because you won‘t




Make it a routine
breaking routine




You need not always be content with what you have created
but always be content for having
created

 

 

 

Perhaps it’s not new friends
that you need to find
but that you need to leave
the old ones behind




No try
is ever in vain




Keeping your idea
from coming out
is keeping a fetous
from seeing sunlight




Comfort quenches trenches




He who is able to both catch
and be caught
will one day find that
which by all is forever sought




A grey day
gathers the soul
A blue day,
it soars


 


Forget about finding joy,
focus only on paving its way




The best way to help
is sometimes not to




Only those with wings
are able to avoid the strings




It’s not up to you
to change the world
but it’s up to you
to change the world




Inside stay whole summerday
very makes me strange I say



An easy way to jump higher
is to lower the bar




I may not be fortunate enough
to be blessed with the necessary power
but i will always try my best
to never try my best
to dream of fortune and power




Taking seriousness too seriously
leads to nothing but the dead serious




It’s just as easy
learning difficult words
as it is difficult
learning how to use the easy ones





Every day move
Every day get moved




Rather thunder and lightning
than tundra and dry spring




No fear is fruitful.
No fear, it’s fruitful.

 

 


What’s decisive
is to follow your goals,
not to score them



To never create
is to self-cremate




Trying to decide how to appear
brings you but farther away from
how you’d like to appear


 


It is pitiful
to always feel pity for

 

 

 

 

The only thing worse
than the worst possible situation
is not having the slightest clue
of how to manage it




Ask not
god, where are you
Instead, ask god
where you are




Ask not what one can do about it,
but ask only what you
can do about it




There’s a big difference
between wanting to make a difference
and wanting to be remembered
as someone who did




Better to help one
than dreaming of helping
one thousand




Good for you
is good for me.
If not, it‘s not.




It‘s equally important
to always follow your conviction
as it is to always question it




Anger,
when useful,
can be wonderful




Good deeds
do like great yawns




Nothing is more riskful
than being careful

 

 

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Every Child a Sun - Illustrations - aphorism artwork

Every Sun a Mother - the second book of aphorisms

Every father a child - the third book of aphorisms


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