Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

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

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  Freedom, Fear Nothing

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1963). “Japan, China”

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

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  Color, Paradise, Paint

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

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  Change, Eye, Opportunity

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

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  Feet, Stills, Standing

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• My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.

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  Stars, Soul, World

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• By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

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  Art, Believe, Creativity

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.603, Simon and Schuster

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• What is love? It is not simply compassion, not simply kindness. In compassion there are two: the one who suffers and the one who feels compassion. In kindness there are two: the one who gives and the one who receives. But in love there is only one; the two join, unite, become inseparable. The I and the you vanish. To love means to lose oneself in the beloved.

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  Kindness, Mean, Compassion

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• True 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 to create their own.

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  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• God changes appearances every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises. One moment he is a glass of fresh water, the next, your son bouncing on your knees or an enchanting woman, or perhaps merely a morning walk.

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  Morning, Blessed, Son

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• Be always restless, unsatisfied, unconforming. Whenever a habit becomes convenient, smash it! The greatest sin of all is satisfaction.

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  Satisfaction, Sin, Habit

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

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  Inspirational, Photography, Cutting

  "Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing" by Larry Chang, (p. 412), 2006.

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• The more devils we have within us, the more chance we have to form angels.

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  Angel, Devil, Chance

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• The 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 new elements of balance and freedom.

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  Music, Soul, Balance

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• There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness.

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  Kindness, Mean, Punishment

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• As long as there are flowers and children and birds in the world, have no fears: everything will be fine.

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  Children, Flower, Long

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

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  Inspirational, Real, Eye

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• I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me.

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  Dream, Ephemeral, Mud

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• We're going to start with small, easy things; then, little by little we shall try our hand at the big things. And after that, after we finish the big things, we shall undertake the impossible.

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  Hands, Trying, Littles

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

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  Men, Folly, Every Man

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.

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  Faith, Tree, Almonds

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.324, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Men, Doors, Forever

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• All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the globe, observing new lands, seas, people, and ideas with insatiable appetite, to see everything for the first time and for the last time, casting a slow, prolonged glance, then to close my eyes and feel the riches deposit themselves inside me calmly or stormily according to their pleasure, until time passes them at last through its fine sieve, straining the quintessence out of all the joys and sorrows.

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  Country, Eye, Sea

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

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  Motivational, Success, Faith

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• This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.

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  Horse, Stars, Heart

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.

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  Past, Looks, Astonishment

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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