Accepting Reality Quotes

My doctor told me I was going to be marginal at this test and he'd given me some hope that maybe I was going to be OK. But when I went in and did it I realized I wasn't going to be able to pass it so I've been working on accepting reality.

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

They don't tell you this in school, Everybody plays the fool.

Conservative feminism is such an artificial term that doesn't mean much to me. For me conservatism means accepting reality. I acknowledge that there are differences between men and women.

I'm not fancy. I'm what I appear to be.

If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.

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

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.

Shortcuts aren't always.

I find that white people in general, including white liberals and even revolutionaries, are most inclined to call you a racist when they don't want to confront the ugly realities that their racism has created. In their eyes, when you attempt to address those realities from your perspective you become a racist.

Confidence is simply that quiet assured feeling you have before you fall flat on your face.

The language we're exchanging, the fillings in our teeth, the pavement on the road outside, everywhere you look, for better or for worse, you're going to see evidence that accepting reality is not a human's tendency, and not what we're good at, and not, in my speculation, what God or Natural Selection hired us to do. We've been hired, by this universe, to dream, to aspire, to make things that weren't real real - and because that involves a lot of failure, we're damn good at doing that, too.

It doesn't count if your swing is going the highest if you're getting pushed.

Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.

Since the tapestry of all time has already been woven, everything I could ever want to happen in my life already exists in that infinite, nonphysical plane. My only task is to expand my earthly self enough to let it into this realm. So if there's something I desire, the idea isn't to go out and get it, but to expand my own consciousness to allow universal energy to bring it into my reality here.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

The moment is the sole reality.

I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.

When you struggle against this moment, you're actually struggling against the entire universe. Instead, you can make the decision that today you will not struggle against the whole universe by struggling against this moment. This means that your acceptance of this moment is total and complete. You accept things as they are, not as you wish they were in this moment. This is important to understand. You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

I accept reality and dare not question it.

Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were.

Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.

Pause and remember - When you fight reality, you will lose every time. Once you accept the situation for what it truly is, not what you want it to be, you are then free to move forward.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

I still get very high and very low in life. Daily. But I've finally accepted the fact that sensitive is just how I was made, that I don't have to hide it and I don't have to fix it. I'm not broken.

Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it.

Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist.

Once we agree with God that we exist for His pleasure and His glory, we can accept whatever comes into our lives as a part of His sovereign will and purpose. We will not resent, resist, or reject the hard things, but embrace them as friends, sovereignly designed by God to make us more like Jesus and to bring glory to Himself.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.

Christians were never meant to be normal. We’ve always been holy troublemakers, we’ve always been creators of uncertainty, agents of dimension that’s incompatible with the status quo; we do not accept the world as it is, but we insist on the world becoming the way that God wants it to be. And the Kingdom of God is different from the patterns of this world.

When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.

We look at the world through our likes and dislikes, hopes and fears, opinions and judgments. We want everyone to behave as we think they should; otherwise we get agitated. But we are here to accept the world as it is, even as we work to make it better.

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.

Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.

Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are. It is not about patting one another on the back and turning a blind eye to the wrong. True reconciliation exposes the awfulness, the abuse, the hurt, the truth. It could even sometimes make things worse. It is a risky undertaking but in the end it is worthwhile, because in the end only an honest confrontation with reality can bring real healing. Superficial reconciliation can bring only superficial healing.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Abiding in peace makes us a threat to any storm.