“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.

Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.

Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.

When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.

He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.

Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

My wells have run dry, but not because i miss you any less, I finally accept that this is life.

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

Between acceptance and letting go, lies life.

It took me a long time but I finally met people who made me stop craving you.

It was only when I accepted the end of our story, Was i able to begin a new chapter with a better man.

Why not accept your beautiful mess? and care a little less?

A bitter truth: some people are comfortable with your acceptance of their abuse.⁣

Acceptance breeds self-love.