Dr. Eleftherios Gkioulekas -- faculty web page

Favorite Quotes

"Be sure you are right, then go ahead"

David Crockett.

There is a darkness greater than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities...it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril, we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.

J.M.Straczynski, ``Babylon 5: Z'HA'DUM.''
From time to time, you will make mistakes. They're inevitable. Sometimes those mistakes will be...huge. What matters is that you learn from them. There's nothing wrong with falling down, so long as you end up just two inches taller when you pick yourself up off the floor. At times, you may end up far away from home. You may not be sure of where you belong anymore. But home is always there. Because home is not a place. It's wherever your passion takes you. As you continue on your path...you will lose some friends and gain new ones. The process is painful, but often necessary. They will change, and you will change because life is change. From time to time...they must find their own way, and that way may not be yours. Enjoy them for what they are. And remember them for what they were.There's not much left. Except... I believe... I really do believe that sooner or later, no matter what happens...things do work out. Oh, we have hard times. We suffer. We lose loved ones. The road is never easy. It was never meant to be easy. But in the long run...if you stay true to what you believe, things do work out. Always be willing to fight for what you believe in. It doesn't matter if 1000 people agree with you or one person agrees with you.It doesn't matter if you stand completely alone. Fight for what you believe in. Which brings me to the first piece of advice my father ever gave me, and now I'm giving it to you. Never start a fight, but always finish it.
J.M.Straczynski, ``Babylon 5: OBJECTS AT REST.''

See, in the last few years, we've stumbled. We've stumbled at the death of the president, the war, and on and on. And when you stumble a lot, you...you start looking at your feet. You know, we have to make people lift their eyes back to the horizon and see the line of ancestors behind us saying, "Make my life have meaning." And to our inheritors before us saying, "Create the world we will live in." We're not just...holding jobs and having dinner. We're in the process of building the future.

J.M.Straczynski, ``Babylon 5: AND NOW A WORD''
The universe is so big and we are so small. There is only one thing that we ever truly control: whether we are good or evil
from Stargate SG1: Meridian
An idealist is a rational person who assumes that other people are equally rational and that their collective behavior is also rational.
Eleftherios Gkioulekas
To be maladjusted in a sick society is not a sign of disorder, it's a vehement reassertion of the health of the independent mind.
Paul Joseph Watson
Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ulysses
May God be between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk
Ancient Egyptian Blessing
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