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“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis

“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

“God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.”
― 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

“You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis

“When an almond tree became covered with blossoms in the heart of winter, all the trees around it began to jeer. 'What vanity,' they screamed, 'what insolence! Just think, it believes it can bring spring in this way!' The flowers of the almond tree blushed for shame. 'Forgive me, my sisters,' said the tree. 'I swear I did not want to blossom, but suddenly I felt a warm springtime breeze in my heart.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Saint Francis

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

“There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.”
― Po Bronson

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“ഒരു പൂവ് പൊട്ടിയ മഷിക്കുപ്പിയില് ­‍ വച്ചാലും ചളുങ്ങിയ ഒരു പൌഡര്‍ ടിന്നില്‍ വച്ചാലും അതൊക്കെ പൂപ്പാത്രമായി മാറുന്നത് പോലെ ഉള്ളിലൊരു പൂവുണ്ടാകുകയാണ് ­ പ്രധാനം. അകപൊരുളിന്റെ സുഗന്ധമാണ് സൗന്ദര്യം”
― Boby Jose Kattikad, Vaathil | വാതില്‍

“വ്യക്ഷം മനുഷ്യനോട് സങ്കടപ്പെട്ടു: എത്രയോ വർഷങ്ങളായി എത്രയോ ചില്ലവെട്ടി എത്ര കുരിശുകൾ നിങ്ങൾ ഞങ്ങളിൽ നിന്ന് രൂപപ്പെടുത്തി, എന്നിട്ടും ഇനിയും നിങ്ങളിൽ നിന്നൊരു ക്രിസ്തു ഉണ്ടാകാഞ്ഞതന്തെ?”
― Fr.Boby Jose Kattikad, Nilathezhuth | നിലത്തെഴുത്ത്

“ഉത്സവം കഴിഞ്ഞു
ഒന്നിച്ചു നൃത്തം ചവിട്ടിയവര്‍
അവരവരുടെ കൂടാരങ്ങളിലെയ്ക ­്ക് മടങ്ങി.
മഞ്ഞുപെയ്യുന്ന ഈ രാവില്‍,
മുനിഞ്ഞു കത്തുന്ന വിളക്കുമരത്തിനു ­ താഴെ
ഒരാള്‍ തനിച്ചാവുന്നു.
പിന്നീടാണ്‌ ക്രിസ്തു വന്നത്.
അവസാനത്തെ ചങ്ങാതിയും പടിയിറങ്ങുമ്പോള ­്‍
ആരുമറിയാതെ ഉള്ളിലേക്കെത്തു ­ന്ന സുഹൃത്ത്‌.
കുന്തിരിക്കത്തി ­ന്റെ ഗന്ധത്തില്‍ നിന്ന്
നമുക്കീ തച്ചന്റെ വിയര്‍പ്പിലേക്ക ­് മടങ്ങാം.”
― Boby Jose Kattikad, Hridayavayal | ഹൃദയവയല്‍

“amiss, and there stood Baba Ayub, eyes squeezed”
― Anonymous

“Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.”
― James Allen

“A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of discovering the hidden powers and possibilities within himself.”
― Anonymous

“We can call this power intuition, but intuition is nothing more than a sudden and immediate seizing of what is real, without the need for words or formulas.”
― Anonymous

“Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy