When a man has reached a condition in which he believes that a thing must happen because he does not wish it, and that what he wishes to happen never will be, this is really the state called desperation.

To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.

The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of the intellect as inevitable as that error of the eye which lets you fancy that on the horizon heaven and earth meet.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.

If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.