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“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”
-- Nikos Kazantzakis

#Faith #Believe
“Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.”
-- Nikos Kazantzakis

#Change #Eye #Reality
“I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”
-- Nikos Kazantzakis

#Freedom #Fear Nothing
“By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it.”
-- Nikos Kazantzakis

#Inspirational #Believe #Doe
“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

#Inspirational #Education #Teacher
“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.”
-- Nikos Kazantzakis

#Morning #Blessed #Son
“A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.”
-- Nikos Kazantzakis

#Inspirational #Photography #Cutting
“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

#Past #Looks #Astonishment
“The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.”
-- Nikos Kazantzakis

#Feet #Stills #Standing
“As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust.”
-- Nikos Kazantzakis

#Golf #Rhythm #Seagull
“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

#Knowledge #Men #Victory
“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

#Sleep #Heart #Men
“God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.”
-- Nikos Kazantzakis

#Blessed #Men #Appearance
“Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.”
-- Nikos Kazantzakis

#Men #Sea #Dying
“You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.”
-- Nikos Kazantzakis

#Color #Paradise #Paint
“Reach what you cannot”
-- Nikos Kazantzakis
“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

#Law #Today #Sin
“Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.”
-- Nikos Kazantzakis

#Country #Travel #Journey
“Life's true face is the skull.”
-- Nikos Kazantzakis

#Skulls #Faces
“You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.”
-- Nikos Kazantzakis

#Men #Doors #Forever
“The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.”
-- Nikos Kazantzakis

#Inspirational #Real #Eye
“Let your youth have free reign, it won't come again, so be bold and no repenting.”
-- Nikos Kazantzakis

#Reign #Youth #Repent
“The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation. Most often this struggle is unconscious and short-lived. A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death.”
-- Nikos Kazantzakis

#Struggle #Eye #Night
“What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation.”
-- Nikos Kazantzakis

#Life #Military #War
“When everyone drowns and I'm the only one to escape, God is protecting me. When everyone else is saved and I'm the only one to drown, God is protecting me then too.”
-- Nikos Kazantzakis
“By believing passionately in that which doesn't exist, you create it and that which has not been sufficiently desired is what we call the non existent.”
-- Nikos Kazantzakis

#Believe
“All the political, social, and economic improvements, all the technical progress cannot have any regenerating significance, so long as our inner life remains as it is at present. The more the intelligence unveils and violates the secrets of Nature, the more the danger increases and the heart shrinks.”
-- Nikos Kazantzakis

#Heart #Long #Political
“What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.”
-- Nikos Kazantzakis

#Dream #Laughter #Wine
“The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action.”
-- Nikos Kazantzakis

#Acting #Action #Holy
“Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all â€¦ is not to have one.”
-- Nikos Kazantzakis

#Men #Folly

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