Nikos Kazantzakis

My dads favorite author....for very good reason...always journeying....some favorite quotes i feel like sharing today....

"By believing passionately in some-thing that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired."

'Everything in the world has a hidden meaning. . . . Men, animals, trees, stars, they are all hieroglyphics. When you see them you do not understand them. You think they are really men, animals, trees, stars. It is only years later that you understand.'

'You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint paradise, then in you go.'

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

'As I watched the seagulls, I thought: "That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust."

'Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.'

'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 bridges of their own.'

and one of my most favorites......

'For this was my greatest ambition: to leave nothing for death to take-nothing but a few bones.'