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Kazantzakis QUOTES

  • I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

  • In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

  • The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

  • Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.



  • I said to the almond tree, 'Speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed.

  • I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

  • Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble.

  • You have your brush, you have your colors, paint your paradise, and in you go.

  • Life is a shower, it will pass.

  • Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, is not to have one.

  • If you don't embrace yourself first, do not expect from others to do so. Love the person because it's you.

  • The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.

  • You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.

  • Two equally steep and bold paths may lead to the same peak. To act as if death did not exist, or to   act thinking every minute of death, is perhaps the same thing.

  • Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it we do suddenly realize — sometimes with astonishment — how happy we had been.




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