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Danh ngôn của Nikos Kazantzakis (Sứ mệnh: 9)

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.
I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed.
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
One of man's greatest obligations is anger.
I knew that no matter what door you knock on in a Cretan village, it will be opened for you. A meal will be served in your honor, and you will sleep between the best sheets in the house. In Crete, the stranger is still the unknown god. Before him, all doors and all hearts are opened.
Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight.
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.
Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle.
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!
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.
Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it.
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.