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Quotes About Facing

'They Both Die At The End' is about coming face to face with your own mortality.
~ Adam Silvera
It is not the thing you fear that you must deal with: it is the mother of the thing you fear.
~ David Whyte
Not everything that is faced can be changed," Baldwin instructs, "but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
~ Timothy B. Tyson
I got dizzy, he explained. I should think you did. What were you doing?' Nothing, said Moon. I was trying to face one way or the other and I got confused and fell over. Let that be my epitaph.
~ Tom Stoppard
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.
~ King Hussein
There's something about sober living and sober thinking, about facing long afternoons without the numbing distraction of anesthesia that disabuses you of the belief in the externals, shows you that strength and hope come not from circumstances or the acquisition of things, but from the simple accumulation of active experience, from gritting the teeth and checking the items off the list, one by one, even if it's painful and you're afraid.
~ Caroline Knapp
THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality.
~ George Mikes
Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.
~ George R.R. Martin
There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.
~ George R.R. Martin
It takes courage to admit fear.
~ George R.R. Martin
El miedo no debe avergonzarnos; me lo dijo mi padre. Lo importante es cómo nos enfrentamos a él.
~ George R.R. Martin
You made me face something I should have faced a long time ago. I'm grateful. And I should have never asked you to leave. You don't ask someone you to love to walk out of your life
~ Jaci Burton
He [William S Burroughs] has no patience for my kind of neurosis, I know... But since then I've been facing my nature full in the face and the result is a purge.
~ Jack Kerouac
We're facing a very different sort of threat now, a more amorphous threat, al Qaeda, terrorism, and so on. And so the military has abandoned the two-war strategy.
~ Joe Klein
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 the end, reality always found her. And its finding her seemed a harsher blow than if she'd faced the situation straight on from the very start.
~ Tamera Alexander
Yet by running from what we fear, we feed the inner darkness.
~ Tara Brach
We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and let its searing power transform us. Charlotte Joko Beck
~ Tara Brach
Conditions dictate how much fast bowling you face compared to how much spin you face.
~ Michael Clarke
Every country is going to have to face up to globalisation, but Scotland has got a unique capacity because of its history as part of a multinational state to help us deal with that problem.
~ Gordon Brown
Never be afraid to look, Raymond. It's always better to look. Whatever you're afraid of, turn toward it, not away. Once you're willing to do that, it loses all its power over you. Trust me. I know this. I don't always do it. But I really, truly know.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Never be afraid to look, Raymond. It's always better to look. Whatever you're afraid of, turn toward it, not away. Once you're willing to do that, it loses all its power over you.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
It's always better to look. Whatever you're afraid of, turn toward it, not away. Once you're willing to do that, it loses all its power over you.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Running away from a problem never helps. At some point it has to be confronted and dealt with.
~ Cathy Glass
Nella vita ci sono cose che ti cerchi e altre che ti vengono a cercare. Non le hai scelte e nemmeno le vorresti, ma arrivano e dopo non sei più uguale. A quel punto le soluzioni sono due: o scappi cercando di lasciarrele alle spalle o ti fermi e le affronti
~ Giorgio Faletti