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More Quotes by Nikos Kazantzakis
The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.
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, you paint the paradise, then in you go.
You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be free.
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
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.
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.
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.
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.
God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.
