“Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.”— Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco, 1965, "Italy", Ch. 18, p. 179Share
“All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.”— Nikos KazantzakisShare
“God, what is all this talk put out by the popes? Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other paradise!”— Nikos KazantzakisShare
“I said to the almond tree: "Speak to me of God." And the almond tree blossomed.”— Nikos KazantzakisShare
“Energy is neutral. It is what we do with it that makes it destructive or creative, harmful or healing.”— Laura Archera HuxleyShare
“Most wretched men are cradled into poetry by wrong; They learn in suffering what they teach in song.”— Percy Bysshe ShelleyShare
“While our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.”— Ray BradburyShare
“Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.”— EpictetusShare
