Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself.

I wear my lines like a soldier wears his medals. They've been earned. They've been fought for - so there's no reason to be ashamed of them. In your 50s, you just care less about that sort of thing. I think it's to do with what's inside you. You can't obsess about the outside.

By forgiving, we are training ourselves to be strong, confident, joyful, peaceful, happy, and loving. These positive attributes end up affecting every part of our lives.

Personality-wise, I like to avoid putting my pride on parade.

And now, when I have summed up all my store, Thinking (so I myself deceive) So rich a chaplet thence to weave As never yet the King of Glory wore, Alas! I find the serpent old, That, twining in his speckled breast, About the flowers disguised does fold With wreaths of fame and interest.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

I don't need to fight / To prove I'm right / I don't need to be forgiven

Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already.

There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it. Many believe that if they are suffering they are closer to God, but I have met very few who could keep their heart open to their suffering enough for that to be true. (124)

Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.

Shame is pride's cloak.

So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours]

Just believe in yourself and to find spirituality that’s going to carry you. Because all the rest is just fluff.

It was hollow, my triumph, I could feel that, but I held on to it just the same.

I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. Shame is a useless emotion.

Almond blossom, sent to teach us That the spring days soon will reach us.

People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her.

If you can tell the world who you are and what you believe without breaking stride or hesitating, you are happy with yourself.

Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.

I was not offended, my love. An insult is like a drink; it affects one only if accepted. And pride is too heavy baggage for my journey.

No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did.

Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect. When we don't have that, we shape-shift and turn into chameleons; we hustle for the worthiness we already possess.

Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.

The older I grow the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it so with you?

men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them