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“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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

“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“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.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“Reach what you cannot”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco

“Ό,τι δεν συνέβη ποτέ, είναι ό,τι δεν ποθήσαμε αρκετά.”
― Νίκος Καζαντζάκης

“When I encounter a sunrise, a painting, a woman, or an idea that makes my heart bound like a young calf, then I know I am standing in front of happiness.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis

“Να σπας τα σύνορα.
Να πεθαίνεις και να λες:
Θάνατος δεν υπάρχει”
― Νίκος Καζαντζάκης

“Ολάνθιστος γκρεμός της γυναικός το σώμα.”
― Νίκος Καζαντζάκης, The Fratricides

“What are you looking at, grandfather?" he asked with curiosity.
The old man raised his head and smiled sadly. "At my life flowing and disappearing, son, flowing and disappearing."
"Don't worry, grandfather, it knows where it is going–toward the sea, everyone's life flows toward the sea."
The old man sighed. "Yes, my son, that is why the sea is salty—from the many tears."
He turned back to the flowing stream and did not speak again.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, The Fratricides

“Μια αστραπή η ζωή μας... μα προλαβαίνουμε”
― Nikos Kazantzakis

“Be true to thine own self”
― Socrates

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
― Dr. Seuss

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“So you're always honest," I said.
"Aren't you?"
"No," I told him. "I'm not."
"Well, that's good to know, I guess."
"I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways."
"How'd you mean it, then?"
"I just...I don't always say what I feel."
"Why not?"
"Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said.
"Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

“Your hypocrisy insults my intelligence.”
― Toba Beta

“Only one woman exists in this world, one woman with countless faces.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation of Christ

“If I were fire, I would burn; if I were a woodcutter, I would strike. But I am a heart, and I love.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation of Christ