Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

Is not thy home among the flowers?

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

There's a lot of beauty in the world, so go hang out and go be a part of the solution rather than the problem.

That's why children look so beautiful because they are yet full of hope, full of dreams, and they have not yet known frustration.

Where flowers bloom so does hope.

As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.

Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!

Hope is like a path in the countryside.

There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.

The world seems so clean if you only looked up.

Nature is goodness crystallized.

No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.

Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

I always felt the world cannot fall apart as long as free men see the rainbow, feel the rain and hear the laugh of a child.

We have much to hope from the flowers.

I suppose any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold onto it long enough.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Colors are the smiles of nature.

Sense the blessings of the earth in the perfect arc of a ripe tangerine, the taste of warm, fresh bread, the circling flight of birds, the lavender color of the sky shining in a late afternoon rain puddle, the million times we pass other beings in our cars and shops and out among the trees without crashing, conflict, or harm.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

We get strength and encouragement from watching children.

There's no night without stars.