People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.

It is desire that engenders belief and if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of the desires that create beliefs end only with our own life.

Most of the supposed expressions of our feelings merely relieve us of them by drawing them out of us in an indistinct form that does not teach us to know them.

Which of course is followed by: For those who have Awareness, a hint is quite enough. For the multitudes of heedless mere knowledge is useless. Haji Bektash Veli We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition.

When I am not too sad to listen, music is my consolation.

But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.