Acceptance of Reality Quotes

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind.

The past is the present, isn't it? It's the future, too. We all try to lie out of that but life won't let us

There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.

There's nothing wrong with changing your position to fit the facts; there's everything wrong with changing the facts to fit your position.

I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.

People are impatient. They want things to happen overnight, and have no idea of the circumstances and situations that can surround an individual at times.

The castle which conservatism is set to defend is the actual state of things, good and bad.

The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable.

It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.

My first memory was of stories about the past - a past that, according to the storytellers, was superior in every way to the life then being lived. It didn't take me long, however, to understand that the present was all we had, for the past was gone, and nothing could be done about it.

We don't have to convince people how screwed they are.

Not everybody wants be texting their 15-year-old asking how his math tutor was. They would rather be home looking at how the math tutor was today. But it is what it is.

It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so.

I assure you, Constable Morgan, I am quite sane, as I understand the word, perhaps the sanest person in this room, for I suffer from no illusions. I have freed myself, you see, from the pretense that burdens most men. Much like our prey, I do not impose order where there is none; I do not pretend there is any more than what there is, or that you and I are anything more than what we are. That is the essence of their beauty, Morgan, the aboriginal purity of their being, and why I admire them.

One of the hardest lessons of childhood is reckoning with the instability of the world.

Life is hard. It is. And it's like, I don't want anybody feeling any pain.

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

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

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.

The realization that I'm never going to run again, the feeling through my hair when you run... you're still a kid. You still have so much life to live.

I don't care if I don't act anymore.

I've had a long line of failed television programs, pilots that were never picked up, series that didn't go very long. I've learned that there's really nothing you can do. If it's not in my control, I try not to worry about it.

Coming to terms with Donald Trump as the Republican nominee is like being told you have Stage 1 or Stage 2 cancer. You know you'll probably survive, but one way or the other, there's going to be a lot of throwing up.