Facing reality Quote by Karl A. Menninger Download Open image “Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.” — Karl A. Menninger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cheerfully Possible Facing reality Honestly Honestly Cheerfully Ideal Facing Ideals Inspirational Reality Reality Honestly
Develop the wise art of being radically truthful and remaining considerate, thoughtful, and safe. — Claude Steiner Copy Share Image
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The only goal in life is to be happy, genuinely, intensely and consistently , regardless of what it looks like to others. — Abhishek Shukla Copy Share Image
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Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Follow the way of virtue. Follow the way joyfully through this world and on beyond. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for. — John Wooden Copy Share Image
The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius. — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well as those who refuse to love us… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder tradition… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law. — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
Chess is a more highly symbolic game, but the aggressions are therefore even more frankly represented in the play. It probably began as a… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
“We want him to see that as a result of being parented by imperfect parents, he (she) chooses the wrong people for the right… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one. — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
We have come to see that just as the child must learn to love wisely, so he must learn to hate expeditiously, to turn… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
Science is not a body of facts. Science is a state of mind. It is a way of viewing the world, of facing reality… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
The art of managing and leading comes down to a simple thing. Determining and facing reality about people, situations, products, and then acting decisively… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
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… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy annoys me, people need to look into mirrors. Let me hold a mirror in front of your face — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“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… — Tamera Alexander Copy Share Image
Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“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… — Laura Davis Copy Share Image
All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Keep your innocence and ignorance aside, and expose yourself to dangerous situations, and understand the deeper secrets of life.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“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… — John Hart Copy Share Image