Can't Change Reality Quotes

#1. God, it's like reality's completely shifted on me. I used to think I was standing on such solid ground. If I wanted something badly enough, I just worked like hell for it. Now I can't decide what to do, which move to make. All the things I counted on aren't there for me anymore.

Tess Gerritsen

#2. I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

Mark Knopfler

#3. At one time, you think you're invincible. This just can't happen to you but, when it happens, the reality sets in that you either change or you die. You realize you've got only one life.

Ray Rhodes

#4. Even if you time travel your past, it can't be changed, likewise you can't possibly change your future, it is always the present which matters.

Pushpa Rana

#5. The ongoing conflict between us has caused heavy suffering to both peoples. The future can and must be different. Both our peoples are destined to live together side by side, on this small piece of land. This reality we cannot change.

Ariel Sharon

#6. You can't just wish change; you have to live the change in order for it to become a reality.

Steve Maraboli

#7. You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.

James Baldwin

#8. The reality is we live in a world of scarce resources in this veil of tears, as Tony Abbott often describes the world, we have to be real, we have to accept that we can't spend as much money on everything as we would like and so we have chosen to re prioritise, to change spending.

Chris Bowen

#9. In a fairy tale, the story can't be altered. The prince and princess will never have a fight. You'll never hear the queen raise her voice. No on ever gets sick; no one ever gets hurt. Maybe love is only safe in places where it can't change.

Jodi Picoult

#10. If you can't change reality, change your perceptions of it.

Audre Lorde

#11. By deliberately changing the internal image of reality, people can change the world.

Willis Harman

#12. Accepting a situation doesn't mean you have to be okay with it. You can take steps to change things, but then you need to detach from the outcome & accept how things turn out. You keep doing your best & accept reality. If you keep getting upset over things you have no control over, you have no peace

Brenda Wilhelmson

#13. Images are powerful; they can distort memories, recreate reality and change history.

Self

#14. Can we remain indifferent before the problems associated with such realities as climate change?

Pope Benedict XVI

#15. Nirvana manifests as ease, as love, as connectedness, as generosity, as clarity, as unshakable freedom. This isn't watering down nirvana. This is the reality of liberation that we can experience, sometimes in a moment and sometimes in transformative ways that change our entire life

Jack Kornfield

#16. I start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality.

Lauren DeStefano

#17. The life you are living is your creation, your perception of reality that you can change at any time.

Dawn Abraham

#18. Theresa, I know there's a part of you that believes you can change someone, but the reality is that you can't. You can change yourself, and Garrett can change himself, but you can't do it for him.

Nicholas Sparks

#19. Although things seem to be sometimes going up and sometimes descending, sometimes slipping away, nevertheless there is a reality, the same today as in the past. It does not change, for nothing can affect it. Could we not say it is one great harmony? So why shouldn't we ask about it ...

Zhuangzi

#20. It connects humans to other humans in a profound way that I've never seen before in any other form of media. And it can change people's perception of each other. And that's how I think virtual reality has the potential to actually change the world.

Chris Milk

#21. Can't look at the damage that's been done, it's not healthy. Have to look ahead of it. Can't change what I've done, only what I'm gonna do.

Jordan Ghere

#22. We are living through one of the most fundamental shifts in history- a change in the actual belief structure of Western society. No economic, political, or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind. By deliberately changing their images of reality, people are changing the world.

Willis Harman

#23. For the record: Quantum mechanics does not deny the existence of objective reality. Nor does it imply that mere thoughts can change external events. Effects still require causes, so if you want to change the universe, you need to act on it.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#24. We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very sophisticated entertainment, but a way to act.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#25. It's rewarding to be able to change people's perceptions of reality, ... They just see their environment in a different way. They have a kind of different-colored glasses that they can see their world in. To me, that's really cool - when games can change you.

Will Wright

#26. We cannot change our ugly past but we can make a better present.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#27. When you're a famous, successful person at 16 years old, the rules change for you. Everybody is doing things for you to make life easier so you can go out and play. And I think you miss out on lot of growing up and a lot of reality checks.

Chris Evert

#28. There's never been a better time to change the way you think. Replace every 'I can't' with 'How can I?' It might sound like semantics, but I promise it will bring whatever you want to accomplish much closer to becoming a reality.

Maynard Webb

#29. Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead bravely. If we do this, a path will open before us.

Daisaku Ikeda

#30. We can change reality just from assumptions accepted as true, regardless if they could be quantifiably accepted as true through the physical

Russell Eric Dobda

#31. You cannot change reality, but you can control the manner in which you look at things. Your attitude is under your own control. Weed out the negative and focus on the positive!

Helen Steiner Rice

#32. Art's role (like philosophy's) is not to criticize reality but to change it; and little change can be effected if art remains a cloistered domain.

Richard Shusterman

#33. Getting unstuck is a matter of choice. If you want flourish in life make a choice today to move into that reality. You can do it.

Sereda Aleta Dailey

#34. Science is not there for you to cherry pick ... You can decide whether or not to believe in it but that doesn't change the reality of an emergent scientific truth.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#35. There are only two realities in life: death and laughter. We can do nothing to change the former, so we might as well do all we can to save the latter.

John F. Kennedy

#36. Despair ... is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality - it's a kind of mourning period for our fantasies. Some people do not survive this despair, but no major change within a person can occur without it.

Philip Slater

#37. If I can alter my perception of the reality, I can change the reality itself.

Thomm Quackenbush

#38. Like space, the soul is not an expression of eternal constancy but of constant change, and this motion has but one purpose: to continue forward, on the narrow ledge, in the absurd hope that you can escape the Darkness.

Erik Valeur

#39. Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself. I can throw open to you no picture gallery but your own soul.

Hermann Hesse

#40. You can't change reality -- only its perception.

Lionel Suggs

#41. The reality is, we can change. We can change ourselves. We can change our minds. We can change our hearts ... and therefore the Universe changes.

Richard Gere

#42. You can create absolutely new reality, both in your personal and professional life and with the same people, by altering your perception towards life, and by putting necessary work into it.

Roshan Sharma

#43. Frankly, it's depressing, each night sleeping in someone else's home. I miss having a roof to my name. Our situation isn't an 'All in the Family' cliche, but it's still easy to see reality in plain terms: I live with my in-laws, and I can't say when that will change.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#44. I must not imagine what is 'not' as a means of escaping what 'is'. Rather, I must understand what 'is' and imagine how I can make it what it is 'not'.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#45. Reality can be mischievous at times, fragile, fleeting; with the potential to change vastly without warning.

Steven Redhead

#46. You really can change. Your reality is based on the way you think.

Oprah Winfrey

#47. You never can change the reality without changing the perception.

Debasish Mridha

#48. To be a fantastic writer, live in your dreams and imaginations where you can dance like a peacock, swim like a shark, and fly like a butterfly. Live where reality has no power to change you.

Debasish Mridha

#49. Can we take a direct flight back to reality or do we have to change planes in Denver?

Tim Allen

#50. Hypocrisy is our friend. Power structures have to pretend to hold values in order to win the loyalty of at least some of society. We can use the gap between those professed values and reality to move people to try to change the reality towards the values.

Justin Podur

#51. Reality may not be what you want it to be, but it is the reality you now must face. You can deny this reality and try to wish it away, or you can accept it and not waste any energy on wanting it to be different.

David W. Earle

#52. if I can't change the world," he told her, "I will change the way people look at it.

Gian Andrea

#53. Reality changes words far more than words can ever change reality.

Mark Forsyth

#54. Reality is never clear, said Boris. It's never final. You can always change it or see it a different way.

Rana Dasgupta

#55. I thought the morning would bring change. But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second. A moment. In a single breath, reality as you know it can simply fall away.

Ally Carter

#56. 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.

Elizabeth Edwards

#57. We may not be able to change the reality but we can change how our minds see and store it.

Maddy Malhotra

#58. Today I have a choice. I can resist reality and suffer pain or peacefully accept what I cannot change.

Karan Casey

#59. For example, I can doubt that 2 + 2 = 4; however, my doubting does not change the equation. When I test out that formula and find that it is true, then that becomes my reality. How can anything become real until it is tested in the crucible of doubt?

David W. Earle

#60. It's the idea that we just have to go along, we can't change it, things won't change. I think that's the sad part, the sad reality traditional parties have bred in parts of Atlantic Canada.

Stephen Harper

#61. It's a wonderful epiphany: with a lie I can change reality; with a lie I can change the world.

Brady Udall

#62. An opportunity leading to your blessing can totally change your life

Sunday Adelaja

#63. Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.

James Baldwin

#64. The pale fabric of reality has so many hidden pockets that we can find some change in here somewhere - you just have to dig a little deeper to avoid the chewing gum and past mistakes.

Corey Taylor

#65. The truth is that you can never be sure if you have decided on the right thing until the party is over, and by then it is too late to go back and change your mind, which is why the world is filled with people doing terrible things

Lemony Snicket

#66. Water is the mirror that has the ability to show us what we cannot see. It is the blueprint for our reality, which can change with a single, positive thought. All it takes is faith, if you're open to it

Masaru Emoto

#67. You can't change an unpleasant reality if you won't acknowledge it, Mac. You can only control what you're willing to face. Truth hurts. But lies can kill.

Karen Marie Moning

#68. Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind.

Plato

#69. Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where stories are read. A story can make us cry and laugh, break our hearts, or make us angry enough to change the world.

Grant Morrison

#70. We can debate this or that aspect of climate change, but the reality is that most people now accept our climate is indeed subject to change as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.

Tony Blair

#71. Every moment is a fresh new beginning, a wonderful inauguration of the great cosmic journey through the universe. We can do whatever we want. We can change reality at any moment.

Russell Brand

#72. If humans created it then it is the product of a choice that somebody made. And if it was chosen it can be changed.

Oli Anderson

#73. The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people, and reality to something more positive ... and begin to act accordingly.

Shakti Gawain

#74. You can change someone by your actions, not by your words

Sid

#75. [It's] the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality. And if we can change the lens, not only can we change your happiness, we can change every single educational and business outcome at the same time.

Shawn Achor