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

With the world in the state it is today, whoever is virtuous must be so to the point of sainthood, and even beyond; whoever is a sinner must be so to the point of bestiality and even beyond. Today the middle road is no more.

God sends rain, but He also sends hoods; and when the rain grows heavier, He sends a cave.

When an almond tree became covered with blossoms in the heart of winter, all the trees around it began to jeer. 'What vanity,' they screamed, 'what insolence! Just think, it believes it can bring spring in this way!' The flowers of the almond tree blushed for shame. 'Forgive me, my sisters,' said the tree. 'I swear I did not want to blossom, but suddenly I felt a warm springtime breeze in my heart.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

There is only one sin god will not forgive Boss, and that is to deny a woman who is in wanting ~ Zorba

All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you see?