Reality Acceptance Quotes

#1. If you'd called me an ox, I'd have said I was an ox; if you'd called me a horse, I'd have said I was a horse. If the reality is there and you refuse to accept the name men give it, you'll only lay yourself open to double harassment.

Zhuangzi

#2. What you hate, you re-create; and what you bless, you put to rest.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#3. Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery, because we have .. the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality .. which, from time to time, reveals itself to be vain and illusory.

Luigi Pirandello

#4. Being free brings a lightness, a carefree surrender to all that is happening around you, and, above all, an acceptance of reality.

Deepak Chopra

#5. Even baldness becomes a beauty of a hairless head through the heart of acceptance

Munia Khan

#6. Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.

David Richo

#7. Either nobody's perfect,
or everyone is.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#8. Monotheism owes its existence not to philosophic speculation about the nature of reality or knowledge or virtue, but to acceptance of reality identified with a supreme being.

Israel Shenker

#9. Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first time someone said, No you can't.

Marc Maron

#10. Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#11. The acceptance of the reality that we are in the Lord's loving hands is only a recognition that we have never really been anywhere else.

Neal A. Maxwell

#12. Once we understand that what happens beyond our control may be just what we need, we see that acceptance of reality can be our way of participating in our own evolution.

David Richo

#13. Only when we accept the fact that the world is never exactly as we see it through our individual lens of perception will we be able to accept ourselves or the mystery that is life itself.

Hal Zina Bennett

#14. Perfection itself is not the ultimate goal
but the ultimate condition of life.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#15. 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

#16. Walking in ignorance is a choice for those who find reality too hard to face.

T.F. Hodge

#17. As writers like to remark, books are never finished, they are merely abandoned. This acceptance of necessary expediency leads to the increasing doubt and anxiety characteristic of the last hours before the first significant encounter with reality: the separation event.

Venkatesh G. Rao

#18. Acceptance says, True, this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me.

Catherine Marshall

#19. I just stopped from dreaming and woke up,
just like a dream to be loved back is just a dream you have to accept,
it was just glimpse of hopes you wanna take it to reality, nothing more, nothing less

Jinnul Jr.

#20. 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

#21. To see the divine in others, we have to love. Where love is thick, faults are thin. If you really love someone, then it is difficult to find fault with him. His faults seem negligible, for love means oneness. This oneness comes from our conscious acceptance of his reality as it is.

Sri Chinmoy

#22. The final lesson is that 'reality' is always the way to go and that acceptance is the only way to get there.

Oli Anderson

#23. Forgiveness ... is a willingness to get over what you think should have happened and an acceptance of the reality of what actually happened.

Rhonda Britten

#24. 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.

Lao-Tzu

#25. Arguing with reality it like trying to teach a cat to bark.

Byron Katie

#26. The process of leniency involves accepting the reality of the current situation and finding a satisfying meaning therein, as opposed to misconstruing or denying the facts of the situation.

Sandra L. Schneider

#27. The solution to violence in America is the acceptance of reality

Gavin De Becker

#28. There was no going back to the way things were, because all you ever got was the way things are.

Sarah Ockler

#29. I want true love in this life, and true contentment and peace. But maybe the only way I can find those things is to let go of the belief that this life is my reality.

Elizabeth Kim

#30. There is only one certain test of the virtue and that is humiliation. The acceptance of humiliation alone shows the depth and reality of our humility.

Nivard Kinsella

#31. The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.

Salman Rushdie

#32. I know that many, if not most, women would have a problem with my acceptance of what happened with Lara.
The reality is I shall always be grateful to Lara for helping my husband when I could not do so. I couldn't have chosen a better or kinder surrogate.

Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker

#33. Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

Eckhart Tolle

#34. When you are in a state of nonacceptance, it's difficult to learn. A clenched fist cannot receive a gift, and a clenched psyche grasped tightly against the reality of what must not be accepted cannot easily receive a lesson.

Roger Delano Hinkins

#35. Peace does not demand that everyone like or want the same reality.

Alaric Hutchinson

#36. The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146)

Jean-Yves Leloup

#37. The complementary movement towards divine love is growth in humility which is the acceptence of the reality about ourselves, our own weakness and limitations.

Thomas Keating

#38. Love is just a mask. All we search is a Comfort, Acceptance. Consolation. Affirmation. Assurance. Indulgence. Isolation. Absolution and Remission.

Sarvesh Jain

#39. What is it about our expectations, plans, or ideas that hold such sway over us? It is as if we've written a script for a play of our lives that runs about a month ahead of actual life; if reality varies from what we've created in our minds we disengage or pout.

Holly Sprink

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

Bryant McGill

#41. Sure all life's highways at some point must end,
so I plan to ride it in style and plummet in a swan dive
when the pavement runs out ...
And hopefully leave behind artistically
that which may make other roads
an even better ride ...

Tom Althouse

#42. Acceptance of ignorance (of reality) is the true knowledge path.

Dada Bhagwan

#43. Probably the worst thing that has happened to our understanding of reality has been the acceptance of ourselves as consumers.

Madeleine L'Engle

#44. We don't need to face our demons, we only need to face reality.

Marty Rubin

#45. Accept not a mediocre effort but any end result of a super effort

Manoj Arora

#46. And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting -
In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.

Alberto Caeiro

#47. Whatever you don't completely reject outright is taken as acceptance by reality.

Steven Redhead

#48. His worst fantasy her reality
he pulls the strings
does unspeakable things
A sadistic entrance
for his acceptance

Diana Rasmussen

#49. I guess love distorts our perception of reality, and it's even harder to recognize the truth when it's buried underneath layers of what we imagine relationships should be like.

Shannon Mullen

#50. You can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do.

Lois Lowry

#51. The most difficult dilemma for a person is perhaps when his heart testifies to an inevitable reality yet his tongue will not proclaim it, when his mind screams in acceptance of truth but he cant bring himself to state it.

Umera Ahmed

#52. IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#53. For people who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they like.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#54. Now that she had actually seen and accepted reality, and reality brought such a healing calm.

Gloria Naylor

#55. Our acceptance of lies becomes a cultural cancer that eventually shrouds and reorders reality until moral garbage becomes as invisible to us as water is to a fish.

Stephanie Ericsson

#56. The truth is, it's really only okay to be yourself if that self is within an accepted range of 'normal'.

Stacey Kade

#57. There was no attempt to speak of blastocytes; only the hard, hard reality of acceptance and faith.

Anne Cleeland

#58. All we know is what we're told.

Ashly Lorenzana

#59. 'Going home' is a journey to the heart of who we are, a place where we can be ourselves and welcome the reality of our beauty and our pain. From this acceptance of ourselves, we can accept others as they are and we can see our common humanity.

Jean Vanier