Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

We need realism to deal with reality.

The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

Why harrow oneself by looking on the worst side?... Because it is sometimes necessary.

You brought nothing into this world; you will take nothing from it, but please, leave us with something