“Art begins with resistance—at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.”

“You have a masterpiece inside you, you know. One unlike any that has ever been created, or ever will be. If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it. Only you.”

“Every passive resistant movement has at some point been forced either to deny itself or repudiate the state.”

“Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.”

“Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.”

“Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is... The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds. ”