Quotes About Not Facing Reality

#1. All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is. - BUDDHA

Gay Hendricks

#2. The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

Margaret Halsey

#3. My final advice for young people is to not wait for leadership from adult politicians. Step forward today, because our current leaders are denying the dire reality we are facing. Leadership can come form anywhere.

Kumi Naidoo

#4. Growth and empowerment requires reflection and facing the frightening, ugly, hard and unbearable reality.

Bryant McGill

#5. All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn't work in reality.

Michele Bachmann

#6. Knowing to do the right thing, but playing stupid to oblige to it, is still lying.

Anthony Liccione

#7. For years I'd been trying to forget ... , locking it up and burying it deep in my memory. The journey ... had shattered that, bringing it all back - but now that I'd faced it, I found to my surprise that the fear had been worse than the reality.

Benedict Jacka

#8. She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not face up to the enemy in all his dark power, then the enemy will come up from behind some dark day and destoy you while you are facing the other way.

Frederick Buechner

#9. This next part is not going to be any fun, but it's like taking off a band-aid. It has to be done.

Kenneth Eade

#10. Strictly speaking, there is no absolute reality, and that is why two individuals facing the same situation may end up seeing adversity or opportunity depending on their mental model.

Mushtak Al-Atabi

#11. In reality, finding a way to raise taxes may well be the central political problem facing the United States.

David Leonhardt

#12. The reality is Hicks is facing an unfair justice system that is not tolerated anywhere else in the world, so where does that leave him

Michael Mori

#13. An authentic life facing reality without mental equivocation is the simplest type of life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#14. You have to face reality some time. But there's no sense in facing it until somebody forces you to.

Billy Beane

#15. But the reality is that many people are facing nonphysical persecution because of their stand for righteousness.

Jerry Bridges

#16. Hypocrisy annoys me, people need to look into mirrors. Let me hold a mirror in front of your face.

C. JoyBell C.

#17. There is a big difference between hurt and harm. We all hurt sometimes in facing hard truths, but it makes us grow. It can be the source of huge growth. That is not harmful. Harm is when you damage someone. Facing reality is usually not a damaging experience, even though it can hurt.

Henry Cloud

#18. Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease.

Keith Miller

#19. Comprehension, in short, means the unpremeditated, attentive facing up to, and resisting of, reality - whatever it may be.

Hannah Arendt

#20. When you face yourself, you face the truth of who you are.

Stephen Richards

#21. Had I faced all the facts It seemed like I had but actually you never know just by remembering how many there were to have faced.

Jane Smiley

#22. To face the realities of our lives is not a reason for despair-despair is a tool of your enemies. Facing the realities of our lives gives us motivation for action. For you are not powerless ... You know why the hard questions must be asked. It is not altruism, it is self-preservation-survival.

Audre Lorde

#23. Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.

Joyce Meyer

#24. What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.

Eugene T. Gendlin

#25. Faith is facing reality without being discouraged by it.

Rick Warren

#26. But for me at any rate it was all part of dissolving the God trip or father-figure trip. Facing up to reality instead of always looking for some kind of heaven.

John Lennon

#27. It is hard to hear God, but it is even harder not to hear God. The pain one brings upon oneself by living outside of evident reality is a greater and longer-lasting pain than the brief pain of facing it head on.

Richard Rohr

#28. I spent many years trying to make up reasons about why I had the flashbacks, memories, continuous nightmares. When I finally decided to quit trying to hide from truth, I began to heal.

Karen Marshall

#29. Seeing is always an act of courage.

Marty Rubin

#30. Latent brain functions can be enabled by force majeure
when we are facing the weirdness of an unknown reality.

Toba Beta

#31. Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

Karl A. Menninger

#32. When people are facing real hardships in their lives, they have no time to invent imaginary ones.

Marty Rubin

#33. What all life has faced and experienced before you, you still have to face and experience yourself.

Marty Rubin

#34. The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance.

Michael Crichton

#35. Long ago she'd learned that facing reality was inevitable. She could skulk about, trying to avoid it or pretending it wasn't there. But in the end, reality always found her. And its finding her seemed a
harsher blow than if she'd faced the situation straight on from the very start.

Tamera Alexander

#36. Sometimes people don't want to look back because they are afraid of facing the truth. But sometimes, facing the truth we're afraid of is what makes us who we're really supposed to be.

Nancy J Cavanaugh

#37. There is a point when facing the unknown stops being a longed-for adventure and becomes a terrifying reality.

Storm Constantine

#38. I believe in facing reality. But only because I don't like turning my back on it.

Bob Thaves

#39. We must step out of our digital avatars, and come together and have face-to-face dialogue as often as possible.

Bryant McGill

#40. Science is not a body of facts. Science is a state of mind. It is a way of viewing the world, of facing reality square on but taking nothing on its face. It is about attacking a problem with the most manicured of claws and tearing it down into sensible, edible pieces.

Natalie Angier

#41. Inevitably, if we are to grow and change as adults, we must gradually learn to confront the challenges, paradoxes, problems and painful reality of an insecure world.

James P. Krehbiel

#42. That was how I was going to get things back to normal - by working. I never thought I would use the words "working" and "normal" in the same sentence, but I'll try anything to avoid facing reality.

Gary Reilly

#43. Inner peace is found by facing life squarely, solving its problems, and delving as far beneath its surface as possible to discover its verities and realities.

Peace Pilgrim

#44. The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition.

Kim Young-sam

#45. Just like Sept. 11, only with nuclear weapons this time, that's the threat. I think that is the threat. I think it's just facing reality. It's not a happy reality, but it's reality and if you don't deal with it, it will become even more unpleasant.

John Bolton

#46. Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

M. Scott Peck

#47. We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.

William Hague

#48. In some ways clarifying a vision is easy. A more difficult challenge comes in facing current reality.

Peter Senge