Quotes About Facing

that life can't be escaped and must be faced entirely.

For now let me say only this: if sportswriting teaches you anything, and there is much truth to it as well as plenty of lies, it is that for your life to be worth anything you must sooner or later face the possibility of terrible, searing regret. Though you must also manage to avoid it or your life will be ruined.

if sportswriting teaches you anything, and there is much truth to it as well as plenty of lies, it is that for your life to be worth anything you must sooner or later face the possibility of terrible, searing regret. Though you must also manage to avoid it or your life will be ruined.

Well, you know, there's a Skaranak saying for times like these: Running away just makes your arse a bigger target.

But time … how time first grounds us and then confounds us. We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we called realism turned out to be a way of avoiding things rather than facing them. Time … give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.

And as she looked back at him, she felt the serrated edges of her heart in her chest. But also a sort of dizzying vastness: she could face anything now.

You should be brave. Running away isn't brave. The brave thing, the hard thing is to tell the truth. To face up to whatever it is.

Rather than run aimlessly away, it would be best, I suppose, to face the situation squarely and get used to it once and for all.

My, my, solitaire?" Takanori sat down with his legs crossed, facing his boss. "No, dummy," replied Yoneda. "Can't you tell? These're tarot cards.

Male friends do not always face each other; they stand side by side, facing the world.

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

At some point in life you have to face your fears.

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.

...the greatest political problem facing the world today is...how to curb the oppressive power of government, how to keep it within reasonable bounds.

Even though I'd like to avoid the circumstance or situation, I will not. Avoidance behavior will only increase my anxiety. I will go ahead, experience the unpleasant feelings, and I'll get through it.

All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.

All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.

Don't face up to your problems with honesty and courage. That's just crazy. You're better off burying them under an avalanche of sarcasm.

In the long run it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.

But for me at any rate it was all part of dissolving the God trip or father-figure trip. Facing up to reality instead of always looking for some kind of heaven.

We must face what we fear; that is the case of the core of the restoration of health.

... stop trying to get me to write about 'decent courageous people' -- read the Ladies' Home Journal for those! ... I believe in going through and facing the worst, not hiding from it.

Have the courage to face the truth

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.