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Reality Acceptance Quotes

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"Michael Jordan is widely recognized as the greatest player of all time. If that statement triggers you, then you're not acknowledging reality."
"Mindfulness will help you with all of that; these behaviors basically happen because you're running away from reality."
"Let's just keep it real, facts don't care how you feel."
"Happiness can only be sought by first accepting reality in all its suffering and benefits and then by accepting that you are alive and conscious and that you are worthy of living."
"You've got to diagnose it and face that reality before you treat it."
"Choosing reality is about owning how life and the world truly is, not stomping around and complaining about how you wish it would be."
"One of the secrets that people don't know? This is a world you're going to have to live in. There's no going back."
"Sometimes you get what you want, and sometimes you don't."
"Other times reality simply waits patiently for you to run out of the energy it takes to deny it."
"We have to accept reality. We don't really have no allies."
"Democracies only function if people who vote... are receptive to reality. If you're not, if you're unashamedly not, what you're essentially saying is discourse is not a tool that can be used to sway me off bad positions."
"Accept how dark the world is to brighten it." - Embracing reality for improvement.
"If we can't face this truth, how the hell are we going to fix it?"
"Everybody ain't gonna make it. We all gotta accept that. We all gotta accept that everybody ain't gonna make it."
"It's okay to just say it's difficult. You don't have to make it sunshine and unicorns."
"But the only thing predictable about life is its unpredictability."
"Democracy can't work unless you can face the facts of what's really going on."
"Believe it: when a person shows you who they really are, that's what they leave it. Bro, believe it. Don't make excuses. Okay? Cool. It is what it is."
"You can fool another person but you can't fool reality."
"Reality is not as nice, it is not as fun, it is not as comfortable but it's reality."
"The truth doesn't work for everybody - sobering realization."
"The tower falls when we protect ourselves from reality."
"I think this is a reality that we just have to understand."
"Ultimately, I think that's where Peter Parker will end up choosing to live with his uncomfortable reality and reject the allure of an impossible dream."
"A strong man does not run from reality, and that includes the reality of his emotions."
"People out there are allowed to like these facts or they are allowed to not like these facts but they are facts."
"It is far better to grasp the universe as it is than to persist in delusion."
"When Sarah has the filter turned off, it's a scary world, but she adapts to it."
"It's far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
"Reality does have a way of creeping in, and you can't avoid it. And the reality is this thing is milder."
"The difference between acknowledging the ugly truth and accepting the beautiful lie."
"Being forced to acknowledge uncomfortable truths - it's a better version than pretending it's not real."
"Not everything has a happy ending, and that's perfectly fine."
"These things are real, y'all. Not conspiracy theory, these [__] are real!"
"Facing reality headlong, head-on, is imperative."
"It's allowing reality, you're not denying reality, which is very hard for a lot of people." - Pam Gregory
"Please tell me that's a lie... 'Oh, no, it's happening, it's real.' So, I don't know, pretty sad."
"No amount of shame, insults, guilt, or the need to be right is going to change it. Reality is the same."
"Having the characters accept the mist as their new reality is poignant and packs more of a punch."
"Don't try to be perfect, there is no fairy tale, there's real life."
"You've got to stop looking to other people to tell you who you are."
"If you can catch yourself arguing with reality in the moment and realize that's not a wise thing to do... you can then back yourself up." - Lilly Singh
"You gotta address it, man. You just have to address it. You can't just ignore it and think, 'Oh well, it's going to go away.'"
"We must go forward... but not in the ways that deny reality."
"Having wasted all that time pretending everything was fine basically ensured that it wouldn't be."
"I'd rather look at things for what they are rather than keep fooling myself."
"You have to accept reality as it is and realize life ain't fair sometimes."
"This is not only real, it has deep-seeded beginnings from years ago."
"I see a real strong feeling of acceptance, like it is what it is."
"This is a real thing, this is really happening."
"That's just how the cookie crumbles apparently, you can't win them all."
"Let's just accept that sometimes it's going to be darker days."
"This is what we are faced with and this is the reality."
"Weakness is denying the reality that should be undeniable."
"You can only start from where you are. Wishing things were different doesn't make them different."
"A controversy is usually a more formal way to describe two people or group a groups of people that think differently about something."
"You can argue with reality but you can't escape it."
"I always hoped for the best, but I ignored the slowly Changing Winds."
"Truth is not always pretty. Truth is not always peaches and cream."
"It's just beautiful, you can't deny reality."
"I think anyone honest with themselves can see very painfully exactly what's happening."
"Some people can just fuel... that's real life."
"Guess I'm stuck with the reality I've got. That doesn't mean you should give up."
"This isn't some conspiracy theorist stuff, this is real... and it's terrifying, nothing short of that."
"You have to look reality square in the face if you want to have any hope of joy and happiness."
"Stop searching for a happy ending, there isn't one."
"Until somebody shows me a better world, a realer world, and some way to access it, I gotta keep dealing with the reality I experience."
"We see observations like Ryan Graves did off the east coast of the US in 2015, that's just the reality, we're collecting a lot of this data."
"If you're merely sane and accept reality and make decisions based in those realities, you're going to be a lot better off than the past three generations before you."
"Can we just embrace the cool messy interesting sometimes awful story that is reality?"
"Your refusal to deal with reality will eventually take its toll. In the end, it will make things far worse than if you just accept them on a day-to-day basis."
"It's not what you'd want it to be, it's what it is."
"Living in a world of 'what ifs'... doesn't change what is."
"You deny reality as much as you want, but you can't deny the consequences of denying reality."
"Our job was to be an example. You get over a crisis and you continue your life. You can't run from reality." - Martha Reeves
"Growth is about confronting and embracing realities."
"It's better to know the truth and adapt to it than to live a lie."
"Once I started to uh you know face reality my life started to get a lot better."
"You can't really change reality. If you say, 'I'm offended that it was sunrise at 6:55 this morning, not 4:00 a.m.,' that you being offended doesn't change the reality."
"They're able to hold on well to their reality."
"If you're young, you don't want to accept that reality because you feel like you're selling out."
"You're giving up on romanticizing someone or seeing the potential, you're just seeing them for what they are."
"It opened my mind, really, and it allowed me to all of a sudden say, 'Hey, these things aren't in the world of fantasy. These are something that's real.'"
"She knows that she's gonna die at this point, she's kind of figured that you know there's not a lot of ways that this could turn out."
"Deniers can't make racial realities go away by means of linguistic sophistry."
"Come to think of it, I probably just could have made each category out of 25, but I didn't, so we're just gonna have to deal with this."
"Doesn't matter what came first, deal with it as it is."
"The game is dirty, but listen, at the end of the day, it is what it is."
"Just because you don't understand doesn't mean it's not true."
"This is not speculation anymore folks. This is legit stuff that's happening."
"Reality happens, but we keep pushing forward."
"She overcomes her imposed fears for the reality of a girl that's standing before her, someone that she doesn't want to destroy."
"I'm so tired of people just refusing to accept reality."
"I don't think people understand how much we humans, we don't want to accept reality sometimes."
"Once you get comfortable being with reality... you will never ever have trouble making a decision again for the rest of your life."
"When we embrace the fact that life is unpredictable, chaotic, and full of challenges, our expectations align with reality."
"Accept reality and make sensible choices."
"Sure would be nice if you could explain it away but what happened happening that's all there is to it."
"Own your reality, own your life, and own what the [expletive] you got going on because it's really real life."
"Embracing nothingness requires Breaking Free from the chains of delusion and accepting the unpredictable and arbitrary nature of reality."
"Accepting reality no matter how much it hurts is still what's real."
"There's no more wasteful or foolish or frustrating exercise than trying to penetrate the fiction of what might have been."
"It's hard to accept reality sometimes, isn't it?"
"I've never known a group who are more anxious to find out about themselves, more anxious to come to grips with the reality of their lives."
"We must look directly with unblinking eyes at what is."
"We're not eluded; we don't have false illusions about anything out here."
"To ignore reality is not faith, that's called being delusional."
"Life is about accepting reality on its terms."
"Everything that's happening is real, and that's the great news."
"Once you know, you can't unknow it, and that's why a lot of people play dodge the bullet with uncomfortable truths."
"We need to be a little more comfortable with the fact that unfortunately some scenarios, no matter how much we want otherwise, just don't end in the perfect Blockbuster Movie ending that we want."
"Owning it means being honest about what really happened and not trying to spin things."
"Bible is real, and sometimes we can't handle realness."
"Stop living in the 'as if' and live in the 'as is'."
"We don't want to be the kind of person who hides his head or her head in the sand."
"Let's accept reality and now what? Let's go, let's push forward."
"Live in the world you're in, not the world you wished you were in."
"Recognizing your reality, acknowledging the actual current present situation is important."