Accepting Reality Quotes

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

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Change, Stay Strong

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• 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.

  Jennifer Young

  Letting Go, Moving, Fighting

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• Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.

  David Richo

  Change, Mean, Humility

  David Richo (2008). “The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them”, p.91, Shambhala Publications

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  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.

  Laozi

  Life, Change, Spiritual

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

  Nathaniel Branden

  Change, Acceptance, Second Chance

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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

  Joseph Conrad

  Courage, Cheer Up, Army

  Joseph Conrad (2002). “Typhoon and Other Tales”, p.64, Oxford University Press, USA

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

  Brad Warner

  Disappointment, Reality, Discovery

  Brad Warner (2010). “Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma”, p.76, New World Library

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• 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.

  Deepak Chopra

  Struggle, Mean, Acceptance

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

  Claude Chabrol

  Pigeons, Facts, Sometimes

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• 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.

  Desmond Tutu

  Hurt, Real, Healing

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• 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.

  Byron Katie

  Life, Positive, Wisdom

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

  Byron Katie

  Love, War, Acceptance

  Twitter post from May 10, 2011

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

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Life, Wisdom, Fighting

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• The moment is the sole reality.

  Karl Jaspers

  Inspirational, Reality, Cherish Every Moment

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• 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.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Change, Hope, Fear

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• You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.

  Stewart O'Nan

  Love, Life, Acceptance

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

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.363, Tuttle Publishing

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• Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Truth, Learning, Safe

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible”, p.18, tredition

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• 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

  Fighting, Acceptance, Reality

  "Friends Remember Elizabeth Edwards; Muppets & Healthy Eating", www.cnn.com. December 8, 2010.

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• 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.

  Glennon Melton

  Inspirational, Life, Acceptance

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• Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it. -David Richo A rolling stone can gather no moss

  Publilius Syrus

  Change, Mean, Humility

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• 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.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Being Strong, Peace

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 10 Dec. 1964

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• Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Kings, Truth

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 10 Dec. 1964

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• 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.

  Jacques Ellul

  Change, God, Christian

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