It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

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.

Death is in truth an illness from which we recover

The truth is that every morning war is declared afresh. And the men who wish to continue it are as guilty as the men who began it, more guilty perhaps, for the latter perhaps did not foresee all its horrors.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.