As you walk, you cut open and create that river bed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.
Nikos KazantzakisBefore me is the abyss. How can I leap across it? And if I do not leap, how shall I ever be able to reach God?
Nikos KazantzakisEverything in this world has a hidden meaning, I thought. Men, animals, trees, stars, they are all hieroglyphics; woe to anyone who begins to decipher them and guess what they mean.... When you see them, you do not understand them. You think they are really men, animals, trees, stars. It is only years later, too late, that you understand.
Nikos Kazantzakis