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Quotes About Facing

Did not pleasure depend on an architecture of perspective--on contrast and delay, withholding and loss? Did not true enjoyment rely in facing the future?
~ Gordon Dahlquist
Did not pleasure depend on an architecture of perspective—on contrast and delay, withholding and loss? Did not true enjoyment rely on facing the future?
~ Gordon Dahlquist
Not everything that is face can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
~ James Baldwin
Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
~ James Baldwin
Not everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed unless it is faced.
~ James Baldwin
Facing ultimate destruction and the end of the world, human society will undergo extreme, complex, and profound transformations.
~ Liu Cixin
Courage cannot be unveiled without reality
~ Munia Khan
A sketch of a man facing to the right.
~ Adam Smith
I'm facing new challenges in China, the league here is developing and I try to help Chinese football develop here and around the world.
~ Eran Zahavi
The time had come, Sean determined, to face the woman of his nightmares, of his dreams.
~ Laura Moore
A person has to face up to things. You never solve anything by running away.
~ Lauren Tarshis
His relief did not last long. He faced the largest body of water on the planet
~ Laurence Bergreen
If there was one remaining purpose to my life, though, this was it: to prove that the truth could always be faced – explained, demystified, accepted.
~ Greg Egan
Each person here, except me, was living out his worst nightmare, facing his biggest fear—even the dog. It was under a counter, staring horror-stricken at a bowl of generic dog food. I
~ James Patterson
I think we forget that part of parenthood means having to face and reject or face and embrace a kind of animal capacity for unkindness. And if, when, parents do embrace that, it reveals something very ugly to oneself.
~ Karyn Kusama
Craft protects one from facing endless expanding realities—the terror, let us say, of losing your novel in the depths of philosophical insights you are not ready to live with.
~ Norman Mailer
But sometimes the bravest thing a Hero has to do is not fighting monsters and cheating death and witches. It is facing the consequences of his own actions.
~ Cressida Cowell
She sat with her back to her fear, as to the wind and waves. Fear blew and sprayed at her back but she dared not turn around to face it.
~ Cynthia Voigt
before your mind starts to work and you want to run away, accept every moment as an opportunity presented to you to practice facing reality as it really is.
~ Dainin Katagiri
I've got to quit avoiding truths -Lisette
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
What if everyone in the whole world suddenly decided to run away from his problems?" "Well, at least we'd all be running in the same direction!
~ Charles M. Schulz
Pain-Avoiding Psychological Denial One should recognize reality even when one doesn't like it.
~ Charles T. Munger
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
~ Maori proverb
Unhappiness is directly proportional to our denial of reality
~ H.W. Mann