Reality

Parents

"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
"Suffering the most real thing. Suffering is not pain. Happiness—it's not obvious what it is. Pleasure causes desire for more pleasure."
"This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end — which you can never afford to lose — with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality."
"We are looking at reality from the inside, not the outside."
"Wisdom and courage. Hard truth > Reassuring fable. Worthy goal."
"You are never going to arrive at certainty about anything unless you have a much deeper understanding of that subjective lens that you are looking at everything through."
Alan Kay On Always Having a Running System
Being OK with Randomness
Don’t Think like A Millionaire, Act Like A Billionaire
José Ortega y Gasset