„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.“

— Nikos Kazantzakis

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„Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies my inward universe of good.“
— Helen Keller
„Hey, get rhythm when you get the blues.Hey, get rhythm when you get the blues.Yes a jumpy rhythm makes you feel so fine.It'll shake all the trouble from your worried mind.Get rhythm when you get the blues.“
— Johnny Cash
„I surrender myself to everything. I love, I feel pain, I struggle. The world seems to me wider than the mind, my heart a dark and almighty mystery.“
— Nikos Kazantzakis
„I could not awakenMy heart to joy at the same tone —And all I lov'd — I lov'd alone —“
— Edgar Allan Poe
„I subdue matter and force it to become my mind's good medium. I rejoice in plants, in animals, in man and in gods, as though they were my children. I feel all the universe nestling about me and following me as though it were my own body.“
— Nikos Kazantzakis
„Behind all appearances, I divine a struggling essence. I want to merge with it.I feel that behind appearances this struggling essence is also striving to merge with my heart. But the body stands between us and separates us. The mind stands between us and separates us.“
— Nikos Kazantzakis