4 Quotes by Daphne Kapsali

I struggle with compliments: I don’t know how to handle them, and my first instinct is to reject the nice thing that’s been said about me, to prove that it somehow isn’t so.

It’s a disconcerting thing, to be surprised by yourself. To allow yourself to be surprised. To step outside the margins of your story, the story you’ve been telling yourself so far, and go further. To actually get to know yourself outside the story, and be surprised. A.

Dancing on the street’s not crazy. What’s crazy is trying to capture freedom with rules, and how we make our lives so small that there’s no room for dancing.

I think all of our disappointments come from expectations, the context that we build around everything we do, blocking our view.