It is What it Is

"It is what it is" sounds stupidly tautological at first, until interpreted as a reality refocusing device.

Variation 1:
"It is indeed what we recognize it to be, although our irrational desires might wish to believe it is something different."

Variation 2:
i.e. "No one reasonably can deny that it is what we have observed, and thus we can conclude its subsequent inevitabilities."

The phrase gently urges people to accept reality and not to dishonestly make up insane explanations of denial, fantasy, and projection, which is human instinct, causing centuries of unrest, violence, error, and regression to a low mean, with only brief exceptions which constitute civilization.