Quotes About Facing

In the moment I faced dying, I finally knew my reason for living.

We all go through periods of anguish, times when we think we can't face what lies ahead. But the only way to get past it is to go through it, straight through it. No detours, no camouflage, no running. You have to meet problems head-on, despite the pain.

Rita did not look away. Part of her job was to help people face what was coming. Dying could be lonely. A nurse was often easier to talk to than family.

Face to the reality.

We need a warrior's heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.

Do not be afraid to face your difficulty. Turn toward it. Lean into the wind. Hold your ground.

In a world of tension and breakdown it is necessary for there to be those who seek to integrate their inner lives not by avoiding anguish and running away from problems, but by facing them in their naked reality and in their ordinariness. —Thomas Merton

Anxiety, as we know, is always connected with a loss…with a two-sided relation on the point of fading away to be superseded by something else, something which the patient cannot face without vertigo

It takes less courage to end your life in a burst of glory than to face the mistakes you've made and start over.

Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming.

Being strong does not mean avoiding the truth. It means accepting it, learning about it, and dealing with it head on.

I learned long ago that in order to heal my wounds, I must have the courage to face up to them.

The truth doesn't stop being the truth just because you don't want to talk about it or won't face it.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

There can be no resolution leading to growth until the present situation has been faced completely and you have opened to it with mindfulness, allowing the roughness of the situation itself to sand down your own rough edges. In other words, you must be willing to let life itself become your teacher.

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.

That which you fear the most will meet you half way.

It'll never go away until the fear you are running from is finally embraced.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

You can accept the truth now or later, but you can't run from it forever.

Running away from your problems is a race you'll never win.

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.