Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

I need a boy who thinks with his big head, not his little one. Since they do not exist, I have fashioned my own.

When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.

Humans have a tendency towards short-term thinking.

I was a bit of a hot head when I was younger so I used to burn a lot of bridges.

In your 20s - and these are generalizations of course - I feel like I didn't care about as many things or as many people, or even myself, as much. There's more recklessness and more ruthlessness; you're not as considerate of how things land with other people I think.

It's so funny because you think you're attracted to this bad boy. They do whatever they want, but you don't really want that. You don't want someone who's out on a tour bus, sleeping around with different people and getting wasted.

You need to stop thinking with your head, Mud Boy, and start thinking with your heart.” Artemis sighed. The heart was an organ for pumping oxygen-rich blood to the cells. It could no more think than an apple could tap-dance.

I think all of us have our inner 13-year-old a lot closer to the surface than we're willing to admit even to ourselves.

I was painfully shy when I was younger but at some point you've gotta grow up. I think the genius in the man-boy thing is you tap into a woman's motherly instincts.

I think a lot of young teenagers try to get esteem from accolades from other people, or boys, and what you learn as you get older is that you have to create that within yourself.

Who you going to tell when the repercussions spin, showing off your ass because you think it's a trend.

Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.

But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?

I dove into the craziness and did things that maybe I would think twice about when I get older.

When you're younger, think less and do more; when you're older, do less and think more.

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.

I think there's something so attractive about mystery. There's something so attractive about the chase. And the bad guy ... bad boys know how to keep the chase going throughout an entire relationship because you never know if you completely have them or not. That's why they're so hard to get over.

Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks.

But she couldn't dismiss easily his light touch with her. No pushing or pressing, none of that herding and corralling bullshit, unlike any of her old boyfriends. And maybe who you fell for and who you eventually loved wasn't rational, no matter how hard you tried to list pros and cons and sum the results. You couldn't think your way through it, not all the way. Maybe just the scent of somebody carried more weight than everything else put together.

I get told I'm too good-looking for a lot of roles. They don't write roles people would think I'm supposed to play as often as they used to - the rom-com pretty-boy storylines.

I think I've been called edgy - but in all honestly, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot.

I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself.

I had to find a relationship with someone who could simultaneously make me grow up and keep me forever young.

I think you have to sort of accept that nobody really knows where it's going so there has to be a lot of impulsive kind of attitudes. So it's like a train that's moving and you don't quite know where it's going but you try to steer it in the best way you can realizing that it may go in different places that you had no idea.

I used to drink, I did, I had to quit. Man, I was an embarrassing drunk. I'd get pulled over by the cops, I'd be so drunk I'd be out dancing to their lights thinking I'd made it to another club.