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> [Any media-brainwashed automaton can summon the insipid courage to peer into the horrifying abyss. But it takes a freaking genius with a fearless imagination to peer into the maw of happiness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-brezsny/any-media-brainwashed-automaton-can-summon-the-insipid-courage-to/)

[Rob Brezsny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-brezsny/)

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> [Your drive to produce hard-edged opinions stoked by hostility is likely a sign that you've been brainwashed by the pedestrian influences of pop nihilism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-brezsny/your-drive-to-produce-hard-edged-opinions-stoked-by-hostility-is/)

[Rob Brezsny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-brezsny/)

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## Other authors on Brainwashed

## More by Rob Brezsny

> [May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years. May you wake up... and start dancing while…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-brezsny/may-you-eat-an-unfamiliar-dessert-in-a-strange-land-at-least-once/)

[Rob Brezsny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-brezsny/)

> [Act as if the universe is a prodigious miracle created for your amusement and illumination. Assume that secret helpers are working behind the scenes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-brezsny/act-as-if-the-universe-is-a-prodigious-miracle-created-for-your/)

[Rob Brezsny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-brezsny/)

> [Your sweet spot is in between the true believers and the scoffing skeptics…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-brezsny/your-sweet-spot-is-in-between-the-true-believers-and-the-scoffing/)

[Rob Brezsny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-brezsny/)

> [Not waiting for someone to give you what you can give yourself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-brezsny/not-waiting-for-someone-to-give-you-what-you-can-give-yourself/)

[Rob Brezsny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-brezsny/)

> [If you bury your face in your tear-stained pillow and beg God to please send you your soul mate, may you not slur your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-brezsny/if-you-bury-your-face-in-your-tear-stained-pillow-and-beg-god-to/)

[Rob Brezsny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-brezsny/)

> [I will never again cast a curse on myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-brezsny/i-will-never-again-cast-a-curse-on-myself/)

[Rob Brezsny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-brezsny/)

> [What worn-out shticks are blinding you to the blessings that life is conspiring to give you?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-brezsny/what-worn-out-shticks-are-blinding-you-to-the-blessings-that-life-is/)

[Rob Brezsny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-brezsny/)

> [Blow kisses to the oak trees and sparrows and elephants and weeds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-brezsny/blow-kisses-to-the-oak-trees-and-sparrows-and-elephants-and-weeds/)

[Rob Brezsny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-brezsny/)

> [Proclaim the only truth you can be totally sure of: "I don't know."](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-brezsny/proclaim-the-only-truth-you-can-be-totally-sure-of-i-don-t-know/)

[Rob Brezsny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-brezsny/)

> [Your imagination is the single most important asset you possess. Your imagination is your power to create mental pictures of things that don't exist…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-brezsny/your-imagination-is-the-single-most-important-asset-you-possess-your/)

[Rob Brezsny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-brezsny/)

> [“Imagine that the whole world belongs to you. The birch trees in New Hampshire's White Mountains are yours, and so are the cirrus clouds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-brezsny/imagine-that-the-whole-world-belongs-to-you-the-birch-trees-in-new/)

[Rob Brezsny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-brezsny/)

> [Here's what I say: We will ignore the cult of doom and gloom and embrace the cause of zoom and boom. We will laugh…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-brezsny/here-s-what-i-say-we-will-ignore-the-cult-of-doom-and-gloom-and/)

[Rob Brezsny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-brezsny/)

> [We're not going to waste our valuable space or your precious energy by giving equal time to stories of tragedy, failure, and tumult. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-brezsny/we-re-not-going-to-waste-our-valuable-space-or-your-precious-energy/)

[Rob Brezsny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-brezsny/)

> [But you will be hard-pressed to find more than a few novels, films, news stories, and TV shows that dare to depict life as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-brezsny/but-you-will-be-hard-pressed-to-find-more-than-a-few-novels-films/)

[Rob Brezsny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-brezsny/)

> [HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-brezsny/hypotheses-evil-is-boring-cynicism-is-idiotic-fear-is-a-bad-habit/)

[Rob Brezsny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-brezsny/)

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