“we often refuse to accept an idea merely because the way in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.”

“We are not exceptional in our beginnings, we become exceptional by refusing to accept the obstacles which destiny has placed before us.”

“We realize--often quite suddenly--that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn't define us, it has no center.”

“If we are crazy, then it is because we refuse to be crazy in the same way that the world has gone crazy.”

“There is no escape from the hours and the days. Neither from tomorrow nor from yesterday, because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us... We are not merely more weary because of yesterday, we are other, no longer what we were before the calamity of yesterday”

“By Refusing to accept things, because they do not please us,we spend most of our lives making meaningless gestures Somewhere Next Door to Reality.”