Accepting Myself the Way I Am

But if you insist on being sincere, honest, authentic, yourself, you will be condemned by everybody.

If you don’t want to have responsibility, you cannot have freedom, and without freedom there is no growth.

There is no ecstasy greater than to be your original face.

“If it were not for the optimist, a pessimist would never know how happy he isn’t.”

“To be perfectly happy one must be perfectly stupid.”

A man of intelligence searches for something that can never be turned into pain and anguish and anxiety and suffering.

responsibility is one side of the coin and the other side is freedom

“I am not going to be anybody else but myself. Good or bad, acceptable or not acceptable, prestigious or not prestigious, one thing is certain – that I can be only myself and nobody else.”

Remember, the life of growth goes beyond the mundane life of pleasures. Pleasure is not something very significant; it is just like scratching your skin: it feels pleasant, but just for a little while. If you go on scratching you will bring blood to your skin, and then pleasure turns into pain. And you all know that you have turned all your pleasures into pain.

intelligence is always in revolt against slavery, against superstition, against all kinds of exploitation, against all kinds of stupidities, against all discriminations between races, nations, classes, colors. Intelligence is continuously in revolt.