Nikos Kazantzakis was a Greek writer. Widely considered a giant of modern Greek literature, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in nine different years. Kazantzakis’ novels included Zorba the Greek (published 1946 as Life and Times of Alexis Zorbas), Christ Recrucified (1948), Captain Michalis (1950, translated Freedom or Death), and The Last Temptation of Christ (1955). He also wrote plays, travel books, memoirs and philosophical essays such as The Saviors of God: Spiritual Exercises. His fame spread in the English-speaking world due to cinematic adaptations of Zorba the Greek (1964) and The Last Temptation of Christ (1988). He translated also a number of notable works into Modern Greek, such as the Divine Comedy, Thus Spoke Zarathustra and the Iliad. May these Edgar Allan Poe Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.
1. “Everything in this world has a hidden meaning.” Nikos Kazantzakis
2. “One of man’s greatest obligations is anger.” Nikos Kazantzakis
3. “The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.” Nikos Kazantzakis
4. “I fight to embrace the entire circle of human activity to the full extent of my ability.” Nikos Kazantzakis
5. “In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.” Nikos Kazantzakis
6. “The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.” Nikos Kazantzakis
7. “Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.” Nikos Kazantzakis
8. “The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.” Nikos Kazantzakis
9. “I’ve stopped thinking all the time of what happened yesterday. And stopped asking what’s going to happen tomorrow. What’s happening today, this minute, is what I care about.” Nikos Kazantzakis
10. “Let your youth have free reign. It won’t come again, so be bold, and no repenting.” Nikos Kazantzakis
11. “Go as far as you can. Go further than you can!” Nikos Kazantzakis
12. “I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.” Nikos Kazantzakis
13. “You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.” Nikos Kazantzakis
14. “The only way to save yourself is to endeavor to save others.” Nikos Kazantzakis
15. “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
16. “The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.” Nikos Kazantzakis
17. “Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.” Nikos Kazantzakis
18. “Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.” Nikos Kazantzakis
19. “You can knock on a deaf man’s door forever.” Nikos Kazantzakis
20. “The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.” Nikos Kazantzakis
21. “I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me.” Nikos Kazantzakis
22. “Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle.” Nikos Kazantzakis
23. “As long as there are flowers and children and birds in the world, have no fears: everything will be fine.” Nikos Kazantzakis
24. “There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness.” Nikos Kazantzakis
25. “A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.” Nikos Kazantzakis
26. “No! No! Never acknowledge the limitations of man. Smash all boundaries! Deny whatever your eyes see. Die every moment, but say: Death does not exist.'” Nikos Kazantzakis
27. “Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it.” Nikos Kazantzakis
28. “Be sure to live up to your reputation for honesty and goodness, because many souls who believe you to be honest and good have placed themselves in your hands.” Nikos Kazantzakis
29. “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
30. “True teachers use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.” Nikos Kazantzakis
31. “I felt deep within me that 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
32. “My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.” Nikos Kazantzakis
33. “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 realise – sometimes with astonishment – how happy we had been.” Nikos Kazantzakis
34. “All my life, I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind.” Nikos Kazantzakis
35. “Be always restless, unsatisfied, unconforming. Whenever a habit becomes convenient, smash it! The greatest sin of all is satisfaction.” Nikos Kazantzakis
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