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All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.
Zorba the Greek (1946)
How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. ... All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.
Zorba the Greek (1946)
The essence of our God is STRUGGLE. Pain, joy, and hope unfold and labor within this struggle, world without end.
The Saviors of God (1923)
Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we must pursue at one moment in heaven, at the next in our minds. Happiness is a domestic bird found in our own courtyards.
Report to Greco (1965)
I know now: I do not hope for anything. I do not fear anything, I have freed myself from both the mind and the heart, I have mounted much higher, I am free.
The Saviors of God (1923)
Let us transfix this momentary eternity which encloses everything, past and future, but without losing in the immobility of language any of its gigantic erotic whirling.
The Saviors of God (1923)
Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it we do suddenly realize — sometimes with astonishment — how happy we had been.
Zorba the Greek (1946)
I keep my heart flaming, courageous, restless. I feel in my heart all commotions and all contradictions, the joys and sorrows of life. But I struggle to subdue them to a rhythm superior to that of the mind, harsher than that of my heart — to the ascending rhythm of the Universe.
The Saviors of God (1923)
Joy! Joy! I did not know that all this world is so much part of me, that we are all one army, that windflowers and stars struggle to right and left of me and do not know me; but I turn to them and hail them.
The Saviors of God (1923)