Nikos KazantzakisTrue teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them … ▶373Truth
Nikos KazantzakisI surrender myself to everything. I love, I feel pain, I struggle. The world seems to me wider than the mind, my heart a dark and almighty mystery. ✨ Nikos Kazantzakis (2012… ▶373LoveSadnessThought
Nikos KazantzakisYou have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.352Sadness
Nikos KazantzakisThe landscape affects the human psyche - the soul, the body and the innermost contemplations - like music. Every time you feel nature deeper you resonate better with her, finding … ▶364HumanityTime
Nikos KazantzakisEvery word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force. To discover its meaning you must let it burst inside you like a bomb and in this way liberate the soul wh… ▶364Philosophy
Nikos KazantzakisAll the political, social, and economic improvements, all the technical progress cannot have any regenerating significance, so long as our inner life remains as it is at present. … ▶332LifeLovePolitics
Nikos KazantzakisI possess no weapon but love. With that I have come to do battle. Help me! ✨ Nikos Kazantzakis, Peter Bien (1988). The Last Temptation of Christ, p.249, Simon and Schuster332Love
Nikos KazantzakisEverything in this world has a hidden meaning, I thought. Men, animals, trees, stars, they are all hieroglyphics; woe to anyone who begins to decipher them and guess what they mea… ▶321PhilosophyThought
Nikos KazantzakisThe sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient.344Death
Nikos KazantzakisThis book was not written because I wanted to offer a supreme model to the man who struggles; I wanted to show him that he must not fear pain, temptation or death - because all th… ▶355DeathReadingSadness
Nikos KazantzakisLet your youth have free reign, it won't come again, so be bold and no repenting. ✨ Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). Zorba the Greek, p.180, Simon and Schuster356Hope
Nikos KazantzakisThis, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything- as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world before their eyes; they do not really see it, they … ▶301ThoughtTime
Nikos KazantzakisGod is action, complete with mistakes, fumblings, persistence, agony. God is not the power that has found eternal equilibrium, but the power that is forever breaking every equilib… ▶378Politics
Nikos KazantzakisDiscipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit. ✨ Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). Saviors of God,… ▶379Humanity
Nikos KazantzakisTo succeed, you must first believe you can.335Life
Nikos KazantzakisFreedom was my first great desire. The second, which remains hidden within me to this day, tormenting me, was the desire for sanctity. Hero together with saint: such is mankind's … ▶291Humanity
Nikos KazantzakisMan is able, and has the duty, to reach the furthest point on the road he has chosen. Only by means of hope can we attain what is beyond hope.335Hope
Nikos KazantzakisWhen an almond tree became covered with blossoms in the heart of winter, all the trees around it began to jeer. 'What vanity,' they screamed, 'what insolence! Just think, it belie… ▶357LoveThoughtTime
Nikos KazantzakisAs long as our souls remain strong, that is all that matters; as long as they don't decline. Because with the fall of certain souls in this world, the world itself will collapse. … ▶379Truth
Nikos KazantzakisWe come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life. ✨ Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). Saviors of God, p.29, Simon and Schuster369Life
Nikos KazantzakisFor I realize today that it is a mortal sin to violate the great laws of nature. We should not hurry, we should not be impatient, but we should confidently obey the eternal rhythm… ▶369DeathPolitics
Nikos KazantzakisMy soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.358Reflection
Nikos KazantzakisAs I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust. ✨ Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). Zorba th… ▶369Thought
Nikos KazantzakisWhen I encounter a sunrise, a painting, a woman, or an idea that makes my heart bound like a young calf, then I know I am standing in front of happiness. ✨ Nikos Kazantzakis… ▶337LoveSadnessThought
Nikos KazantzakisHow could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink! ✨ Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildma… ▶282LifeLoveReading
Nikos KazantzakisWhat a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams. ✨ Zorba the Greek. Book by Nikos Kazantzakis, Ch… ▶271HumorReading
Nikos KazantzakisOnce more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we must pursue at one moment in heaven, at the next in our mind… ▶326ThoughtTime
Nikos KazantzakisLife's true face is the skull. ✨ Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). Report to Greco, p.120, Simon and Schuster282LifeTruth
Nikos KazantzakisThere is only one woman in the world. One woman, with many faces.348Love
Nikos KazantzakisThere is only one sin god will not forgive Boss, and that is to deny a woman who is in wanting ~ Zorba282Politics
