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More Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis
Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.
You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.
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.
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.
You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.
When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage! An invisible and all-powerful enemy—some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.
I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.
I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.
Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.
