[Dialogue] Zorba Quotes for Len

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Nikos Kazantzakis quotes: Chocolate, vanilla choose

"I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free." -- Nikos Kazantzakis

 "God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can
recognize him in all his disguises." -- Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the
Greek

 "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, Zorba the Greek

 "A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the
rope and be free."

-- Nikos Kazantzakis

 "You can knock on a deaf man's door forever."

-- Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

"I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the
almond tree blossomed."-- Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco

"Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see
reality." -- 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,
Zorba the Greek

"How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast
chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All
that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple,
frugal heart." -- Nikos Kazantzakis

"All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and
touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the globe,
observing new lands, seas, people, and ideas with insatiable appetite,
to see everything for the first time and for the last time, casting a
slow, prolonged glance, then to close my eyes and feel the riches
deposit themselves inside me calmly or stormily according to their
pleasure, until time passes them at last through its fine sieve,
straining the quintessence out of all the joys and sorrows." -- Nikos
Kazantzakis, Report to Greco

"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