Facing Reality Quotes

“Hypocrisy annoys me, people need to look into mirrors. Let me hold a mirror in front of your face.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“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, Focusing

“Keep your innocence and ignorance aside, and expose yourself to dangerous situations, and understand the deeper secrets of life.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Many survivors struggle to believe the abuse happened. They don’t want to believe it. It’s too painful to think about. They don’t want to accuse family members or face the terrible loss involved in realizing “a loved one” hurt them; they don’t want to rock the boat.”
― Laura Davis, Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child

“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, Amongst Ourselves: A Self-Help Guide to Living with Dissociative Identity Disorder

“The bed of thorns will teach you what the bed of roses can’t.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“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, Just Like Me

“For a year, Johnny lived the new, brutal truth that he was on his own.
But that's the way it was. What had been concrete one day proved sand the next; strength was illusion; faith meant shit. So what? So his once-bright world had devolved to cold, wet fog. That was life, the new order. Johnny had nothing to trust but himself, so that's the way he rolled - his path, his choices, and no looking back.”
― John Hart, The Last Child

“One sincere truth from a stranger is more likely to move your life forward...than anything your friends and family may tell you to spare your feelings.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“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, Fated

“We believe that it is the job of each of us to step outside of ourselves, look beyond the shadows, and seek reality. If we hope to present an authentic self to the world, it is critical that we understand what is real and true about ourselves. So how do we begin to see our companies, our brands, our products, or ourselves as we really are ? For us, the best way to start is to stop watching shadows and start facing reality.”
― Tom Hayes

“It's your life. It's up to you to make it better.”
― Nicky Verd

“We are at once put to work sorting. My friend Leybl stands next to me. We inspect every garment as carefully as possible. On the other side of me stands a worker who has already been here for several days. I want to find out from him what happened here, since, despite the fact that I can see the clothes left behind by the victims, I still cannot grasp what is going on.”
― Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka

“I know people can be judgmental and difficult. But if you shut yourself away from the world, you'll never see how beautiful it really is.”
― Imania Margria, The Pacemaker

“You can't outrun something you carry inside you. Don't waste your time trying.”
― Crystal Smith, Greythorne

“In the power of my newfound strength, I saw clearly—even though I’d been empowered to have my old college finally address my “horrific trauma,” make me finally feel heard, this event would never have happened had I not first given myself my own voice, the permission to call my rape rape and not shame. In telling, I forced the school that silenced me, that minimized my trauma, that blamed me for the rape, to finally respect my voice and give me the platform they should have given me in the first place. I did not need the school to call it by its name; I did it myself, and they listened. I was the powerful party that brought the closure and empowerment I’d hoped, in first finding their invitation, that Colorado College would bring.”
― Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir

“When you face yourself, you face the truth of who you are.”
― Stephen Richards

“Wake up and smell the shit, folks. This is our reality, now. Things will not be going back to normal. We’ll be lucky, if they don’t get worse too soon. Who knows what tomorrow will bring? I think it’s better to be safe than sorry, but if you want to go home, be my guest. No one is going to stop you.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“A person cannot exert absolute control over a capricious environment. A wise person concentrates on serenely adjusting to variable permutations in the environs. A personal journey is less anxious if a person resolves to serve as a conscious witness to the natural world and the unfolding lives of family and friends. It is emotionally stabilizing when we no longer delude ourselves with grand fantasies about living and dying, experience life for what it is and stop wishing for a different existence, an altered universe. Nothing good comes from resisting reality.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“No one is born brave; one needs to learn to muster courage - On the Birth of Character”
― Lamine Pearlheart, Walking the Soul

“Home never has enough distractions, only walls and mirrors.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Tied Within

“We just didn’t want to go home, where we would be surrounded by what we truly are and all that we pretended to be, facing what we might never reach.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Tied Within

“We cannot hide from God, so we should flee what can make this happen to us.”
― Benjamin Suulola

“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, Decree of Finality

“His brain didn't want her to go, and he was afraid his subconscious would badger it's only witness into believing she didn't have to.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“Life's only guarantee is death."

-Althas Greycastle”
― John Paul Sterling, The Sons of Mercy

“طريق من الطريقين مفتوح أمامها، وقد تلفت بلا أمل في البرء، إما أن تستسلم وتعيش بقية حياتها بطعم
المرارة في فمها، وإما أن تتقبل الحقيقة في شجاعة”
― لطيفة الزيات, الشيخوخة وقصص أخرى

“Change begins when you realize that there are no hidden or buried treasures.
No Santa Claus nor genie.
Just you and your determination to succeed.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Tears from an unsung place spilled onto her face.”
― Nicole T. Smith, We Have Shadows Too

“The greatest journeys didn’t arrive on smooth breezes. They swept in on gales that brought crashing thunder and torrents of barbwire rain.”
― Melodie Ramone, Falls the Breath