Don’t let reality control your imagination. Let your imagination be the user interface to steer your reality.
— Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
“If that’s true,” she said, “then that’s one heck of a hypothesis.” “Perhaps nothing can be certain in this world,” I said. “But at least we can believe in something.” She smiled.
— Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore
You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection. You cannot cope with the future.
— Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
Everybody has something they speculate and wonder about, no matter how blessed their circumstances.
— Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore