Brent Weeks Quotes

Apparently, the world is not a wish granting factory.

When you srgue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.

I went to America to convert the Indians, but, oh, who shall convert me? Who, what, is he that will deliver me from this evil heart of unbelief?

There are times when I love the world and love everyone, and I want to talk to everyone, and other times when I feel really disillusioned, and like none of this is real, nothing is real around me.

Do I believe? God only knows.

The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality.

I got a dream that's worth more than my reality.

But for me at any rate it was all part of dissolving the God trip or father-figure trip. Facing up to reality instead of always looking for some kind of heaven.

...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.

It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper.

It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.

You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what's really happening is more important than trying to control people.

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.

What separated me from all my homeboys is the fact that I didn't get caught inside the reality. I was always dreaming about doing something else or going somewhere else.

I won't be righteous again. I'm not sure anymore.

The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief.

Face reality as it is, not as it was, or as you wish it were. Be candid with everyone. Don't manage, lead. Change before you have to. If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete. Control your own destiny, or someone else will.

I avoided reality for most of my life. But once you deal with it, it's kind of cool.

Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you.

I don't know what I believe.

There's moments when I think it's kind of silly and I wish I would've just stayed natural

As much as I try to be present, it just doesn't really feel like reality. It feels like a fleeting thing. There's a million other incredibly wonderful girls that are much more talented than me that are out there all the time. So I'm just trying to appreciate it for what it is. But I don't want it to take on that feeling of pressure, because I don't know where that's gonna get me.

She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.

It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him