The Reality Slap Quotes

“Who is the one human being in your life who can always be there for you, in any moment, no matter what happens? Who is the one human being who can understand, validate, and empathize with your pain better than anyone else on the planet? Who is the one human being who can truly know just how much you are suffering? You are.”
― Russ Harris, The Reality Slap: Finding Peace and Fulfillment When Life Hurts

“Most of us want pretty much the same thing. We want to know there is someone there for us: someone who truly cares about us, who takes the time to understand us, who recognizes our pain and appreciates how badly we are suffering, who makes the time to be with us and allows us to share our true feelings without expecting us to cheer up or pretend everything is okay, who will support us, who treats us kindly and offers to help, whose actions demonstrate that we are not alone.”
― Russ Harris, The Reality Slap: Finding Peace and Fulfillment When Life Hurts

“Fulfilment does not mean our difficult emotions disappear; it means we change our relationship with them.”
― Russ Harris, The Reality Slap: Finding Peace and Fulfillment When Life Hurts

“This privilege does not come without a price. With passion comes pain. With caring comes loss. With wonder comes fear and dread. But look at the upside: consider what your life would be like without it.”
― Russ Harris, The Reality Slap: Finding Peace and Fulfillment When Life Hurts

“The answer is that if you’re doing something purposeful and life enhancing, keep doing it and engage in it fully; focus all your attention on the task at hand and become thoroughly absorbed in it. If you’re not doing something purposeful and life enhancing, then stop and switch to an activity that is more meaningful.”
― Russ Harris, The Reality Slap: Finding Peace and Fulfillment When Life Hurts

“When wood and fire combine within the hearth, they provide us with a wonderful experience of warmth. And when purpose and presence combine within our heart, they provide us with a wonderful experience of privilege.”
― Russ Harris, The Reality Slap: Finding Peace and Fulfillment When Life Hurts

“Building a good relationship with ourselves is essential for inner fulfilment, especially when we run into a large reality gap.”
― Russ Harris, The Reality Slap: Finding Peace and Fulfillment When Life Hurts

“Our thoughts are not the problem. Our thoughts do not create the psychological smog. It is the way we respond to our thoughts that creates the smog.”
― Russ Harris, The Reality Slap: Finding Peace and Fulfillment When Life Hurts