أحمدوا الله أنكم مرضى , إذ لو كنتم أقوياء لأدرتم العالم رأسا على عقب - Nikos Kazantzakis

I hate all virtues based on food and bloated bellies;
though food and drink are good, I'm better slaked and fed
by that inhuman flame which burns in our black bowels.
I like to name that flame which burns within me God!

قليل من الأشياء, وكثيرٌ من القلب.

While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it we do suddenly realize — sometimes with astonishment — how happy we had been.