Tom Robbins Quotes

Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.

A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is.

Shake off those gloomy feelings. Drive them away. Fix your mind and pleasures upon what is before you.All is bright if you will think it so. All is happy if you will make it so. Do not dream. It is too ideal, too imaginary. Dreaming by day, I mean. Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.

Marianne Dashwood looks at gray skies and sees blue. That's all very well, and it's not something you ever want entirely to lose. But you must lose a little of it; otherwise you're going to get wet.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

I personally don't feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn't if I tried anyway.

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

It is best to live however one can be.

My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.

You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy.

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

To put up with what you cannot avoid is a philosophical principle, that may not perhaps lead you to the accomplishment of great deeds, but is assuredly eminently practical.

To be a Conservative is to prefer the tried to the untried, the fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the super-abundant, the convenient to the perfect present, laughter to utopian bliss.

I am an optimist, not a dreamer.

It's important to not be naive about this world and know that it's not necessarily a good place to be.

It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn't make any sense to have illusions about what the real world is.

We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.

Keep an open mind and be ready to change and adapt to the situation. Don't ask reality to conform to your blueprint, but transform your blueprint to adapt to reality.

If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o’-the-wisps of the imagination.

He that best understands the world, least likes it

The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.

Don't fight a fact, deal with it.

I do the best with what exists.

[Sherlock Holmes] has to understand the world. That's very much John's [Watson] influence on him. But like a lot of the friendships and relationships in that world, it's born out of necessity. It makes him better. There's a pragmatism to it. It's not whimsical or sentimental. It's born out of necessity.