βThe secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.β
Bertrand Russell
βThe secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.β
βThere are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.β
βMany who build castles in the air cannot build a hut on earth.β
βAll soils are not fertile.β
βAll fantasy should have a solid base in reality.β
βThe era we are living in today is a dream of coming true.β
βEverything in your world is created by what you think.β
βIt hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn't match what you dreamed it would be.β
βHe felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.β
βWhat if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?β
βDreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.β
βTo err is human; to forgive, infrequent.β
βBut in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.β
βPeople like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.β
βI don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.β
βPromises alone will not fill the stomach.β
βHave dreams. Then you can overcome the harsh reality.β