Quotes About Reality

You must come to terms with the reality that nothing outside ourselves, be it people or things is actually responsible for our happiness.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

People think of security as a noun, something you go buy. In reality, it's an abstract concept like happiness. Openness is unbelievably helpful to security.

No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.

The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?

Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.

The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.

There is no greater misery than false joys.

Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.

What, exactly, is the happiness that can be earned by turning away from reality?

What you're believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

Let's assume there really is no such thing as happiness, no such thing as peace, and no freedom either. But there are kind of attacks of senseless ecstasy. Can this be me?

The single fact of existing is already a true happiness.

Success doesn't necessarily mean happiness.

The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.

You search endlessly for permanent happiness in a world where nothing is permanent.

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

Beyond happiness and unhappiness is truth. Truth is not affected by anything in the relative world. Truth is the unifying aspect of existence.

Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.

The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.