“What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.”— Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek, 1946, Ch. 23Share
“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
“Where we find a difficulty we may always expect that a discovery awaits us. Where there is cover we hope for game.”— C.S. LewisShare
“A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.”— Henry David ThoreauShare
“He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.”— John MiltonShare
“Yet I argue not against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate one jot of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer right onward.”— John MiltonShare
“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power, the greater it will be.”— Thomas JeffersonShare
“Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.”— Alexander PopeShare
