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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.
― Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis
Happiness
Chestnut
Wretched
I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
― Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis
Nothing
Free
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.
― Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis
Teachers
Students
Crossing
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.
― Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis
Happiness
Ambition
Accomplished
If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.
― Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis
Woman
Heart
Man
God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.
― Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis
God
Second
Disguises
The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.
― Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis
Wounds
Standing
Feet
A man needs a little madness, or else... he never dares cut the rope and be free.
― Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis
Needs
Madness
Dares
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.
― Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis
Happy
Experiencing
Realize
You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.
― Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis
Knock
Man's
Door
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
― Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis
Since
Change
Reality
I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.
― Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis
Almond
Sister
Blossomed
Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.
― Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis
Life
Death
Look
You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.
― Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis
Brush
Colors
Paradise
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.
― Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis
Wrong
Devil
Upon
Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.
― Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis
Happy
Before
Good
You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be free.
― Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis
Madness
Needs
Dares
For 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.
― Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis
Realize
Mortal
Nature
Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.
― Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis
Man
Greatest
Every
the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!
― Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis
Knowledge
Despairing
Greater