Tell me what you do with the food you eat, and I'll tell you who you are. Some turn their food into fat and manure, some into work and good humour, and others, I'm told, into God. So there must be three sorts of men. -Nikos Kazantzakis Food
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 Courage
I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed. -Nikos Kazantzakis Inspirational
The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness. -Nikos Kazantzakis Brainy
Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it. -Nikos Kazantzakis Happiness
Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive. -Nikos Kazantzakis Beauty
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 Men
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 Happiness
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 Death
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 Knowledge
