Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all

We can teach ourselves to see things the way they ARE. Only with vision can we begin to see things the way they CAN BE.

We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Perspectives change.

Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.

Things are NEVER what they seem, Pa, I thought. I used to think they were, but I was wrong or stupid or blind or something. Old folks are forever complaining about their failing eyesight, but I think your vision gets better as you get older. Mine surely was.

No, I don't want to give my people sticks. I want to give them eyes.

You can't change what you don't understand.

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality," says one of my favorite Byzantine mystics. I did this when a child; I do it now as well in the most creative moments of my life.

Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.

While it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.

Light changes, our eyes blink and see the world from the slightest difference of perspective and our place in it has changed.

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes." "The world is what we make it, and our future is ours to shape.

The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.

There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.

The answers to our questions are everywhere; we just need to change the lens with which we see the world.