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“It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn.”

Whole Problem Pain Grows Process Cutting Adversity Meetings Edges Problem Solving Success And Failure Confronting Cutting Edge Road Less Traveled Road Less Travelled

Author:M. Scott Peck

“The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard...travel may be a flight from confronting the scared--this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.”

May Found Lost Ignorance Lessons Ordinary Miracle Sacred Scared Neighbor Flight Daily Life Elsewhere Family And Friends Miraculous Backyards Confronting Neighbors Friends

Author:Abraham Maslow

“All I want is' - and he uttered the final words through clenched teeth and with a sort of shame - 'to retain my freedom.' I should myself have thought,' said Jacques, 'that freedom consisted in frankly confronting situations into which one had deliberately entered, and accepting all one's responsibilities. But that, no doubt, is not your view.”

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Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“But there was a time when each of us stood naked before the world, confronting life as a serious problem with which we were intimately and passionately concerned... There was a time when Free Love versus Catholic Morality was a question of as much importance to our hot bodies as if a pistol had been clapped to our heads. Further back, there were times when we wondered with all our souls what the world was, what love was, what we were ourselves.”

Ifs World Soul Problem Body Serious Morality Concerned Importance Hot Catholic Naked Versus Confronting Pistols Free Love Hot Body

Author:T. H. White

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”

“It's always a disappointing business confronting my own reflection. My body isn't bad. It's a perfectly nice, serviceable body. It's just that the external me- the study, lightly wrinkled, handbagged me- does so little credit to the stuff that's inside.”

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Author:Zoë Heller

“It seems to be very hard for people to live with riddles or to let them live, although one would think that life is so full of riddles as it is that a few more things we cannot answer would make no difference. But perhaps it is just this that is so unendurable, that there are irrational things in our own psyche which upset the conscious mind in its illusory certainties by confronting it with the riddle of its existence.”

Source: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung

“...I started to realize how many great things could happen by confronting the things that scare you most.”

Happens Fear Realizing Great Things Scare Confronting

Book:Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance

Source: Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance

“In summary, Intelligence Intensification is desirable, because there is not a single problem confronting humanity that is not either caused or considerably worsened by the prevailing stupidity (insensitivity) of the species: badly wired robots bumping into and maiming and killing each other.”

Problem Humanity Species Killing Stupidity Desirable Robots Prevailing Confronting Summary Killing Each Other Insensitivity

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.”

War Winning Threat Iraq Terror Contrary Crucial War On Terror Confronting

Author:George W. Bush

“Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words represent many months if not many years, of one man’s solitude, so that with each word one reads in a book one might say to himself that he is confronting a particle of that solitude”

Ifs Men Years Book Might Objects Months Solitude Picks One Man Particles Tangible Confronting

Book:Collected Prose

Source: Collected Prose

“That day, I really believed that I had grasped something and that henceforth my life would be changed. But insights cannot be held for ever. Like water, the world ripples across you and for a while you take on its colours. Then it recedes, and leaves you face to face with the void you carry inside yourself, confronting that central inadequacy of soul which you must learn to rub shoulders with and to combat, and which, paradoxically, may be our surest impetus.”

World May Soul Would Be Faces Water Changed Insight Shoulders Colour Combat Void Face To Face Ripple Confronting Inadequacy Impetus

Author:Nicolas Bouvier

“Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend.”

Important Faces Findings Adversity Inner Strength Twilight Harry Potter Potters Confronting Facing Adversity

Author:Stephen King

“Going into our fear and confronting our greed, our weaknesses, our neediness is the way out. And the way out is through the mind, by choosing our thoughts.”

Way Mind Weakness Greed Our Thoughts Confronting Neediness

Book:Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!

Source: Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!

“But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.”

Want Past Happened Karma Visiting Confronting

Book:Lunar Park

Source: Lunar Park

“It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us.”

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Author:James A. Baldwin

“Avoiding problems doesn't make them go away - you think it does, but it really doesn't. They're just postponed. Those problems just stay inside your subconscious and brew until your body gets to a point where it's had enough and decides to release some of the stress itself. That's what an anxiety attack is! It happens when you don't know how to vent your frustration, fears, stress, sadness, madness, whatever it is that bothers you, the things you should be confronting and getting closure with. If you don't confront these things and deal with them, your body does it for you.”

“Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes more strength yet to curb the aggressive urges anger may bring and to channel them into nonviolent outlets. It takes strength to face our sadness and to grieve and to let our grief and our anger flow in tears when they need to. It takes strength to talk about our feelings and to reach out for help and comfort when we need it.”

Source: The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

“Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.”

Trying Self Problem Motivational Pain Peace Challenges Acceptance Wall Victory Difficulty Meetings Trials Denial Self Acceptance Numb Finding Peace Confronting

Author:Goswami Kriyananda

“Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge.”

Mind Doe Soul Next Challenges Determination Overcoming Prepared Muscles Exhilarating Confronting Overcoming Challenges

Author:Jim Rohn

“With the defeat of the Reich and pending the emergence of the Asiatic, the African and, perhaps, the South American nationalisms, there will remain in the world only two Great Powers capable of confronting each other-the United States and Soviet Russia. The laws of both history and geography will compel these two Powers to a trial of strength, either military or in the fields of economics and ideology. (2nd April 1945)”

“Think of a single problem confronting the world today. Disease, poverty, global warming... If the problem is going to be solved, it is science that is going to solve it. Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do. If anyone ever cures cancer, it will be a guy with a science degree. Or a woman with a science degree.”

Ifs Thinking World Problem Today Science Guy Poverty Disease Degrees Research Scientist Importance Cancer Solve Cures Global Warming World Today Confronting

Author:Bill Bryson

“A truley heroic way of life lies in squarely confronting and courageously overcoming the pounding vicissitudes that life always throws in our paths”

Way Life Lying Path Hero Overcoming Heroic Confronting Vicissitudes

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable, Patient to some degree, at first recognized as a frontier; Useful, untrustworthy, as a conveyor of commerce; Then only a problem confronting the builder of bridges. The problem once solved, the brown god is almost forgotten By the dwellers in cities-ever, however, implacable. Keeping his seasons, and rages, destroyer, reminder Of what men choose to forget. Unhonored, unpropitiated By worshippers of the machine, but waiting, watching and waiting.”

“By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.”

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Author:Thomas More

“Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe liberty because it throws them back on their own abilities and resources, thus confronting them with the possibility of insignificance.”

Men Ability Liberty Possibility Protect Resources Dignity Libertarian Libertarianism Humiliation Confronting Loathe Insignificance Affording

Book:Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary

Source: Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary

“I have the authority to address the threat from Isil, but I believe we are strongest as a nation when the president and Congress work together. So I welcome congressional support for this effort in order to show the world that Americans are united in confronting this danger.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“So here's the situation confronting the drug firms: The drugs cost more to make, but they can't charge more for them. What do they do? Increasingly, the U.S. market is driving them toward drugs aimed at the diseases of richer, older Americans and away from antimicrobials, vaccines, and the like.”

Situation Cost Drug Disease Medicine Driving Firm Vaccines Confronting

Author:Donald Kennedy

“If something is going to be better, it is new, and if it's new you are confronting problems and challenges you don't have references for.”

Ifs Problem Challenges Consciousness Design Confronting New You Problems And Challenges

Author:Jonathan Ive

“We the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency-a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential...the earth has a fever. And the fever is rising...Indeed, without realizing it, we have begun to wage war on earth itself.”

Humans War Earth Energy Realizing Environment Civilization Survival Threat Species Climate Change Rising Destructive Gathering Emergencies Fever Confronting Human Species Ominous

Author:Al Gore

“The relationship between Britain and the US is fantastically important when confronting terrorism.”

Important Terrorism Britain Confronting

Author:Tony Blair

“By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics. Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.”

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Author:M. C. Escher

“Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life.”

Way Problem Social Catholic Ghost Protestants Confronting Social Problems Grappling

Author:Stephen Greenblatt

“There is no doubt in my mind that this is the greatest problem confronting mankind at this time and that it has reached the level of a state of emergency.”

Mind States Problem Levels Doubt Mankind Climate Change No Doubt Emergencies Confronting

Author:David de Kretser

“As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.”

Humans Grace Goodness Mercy Guilt Misery Debt Confronting

Book:The Knowledge of the Holy: The Attributes of God: Their Meaning in the Christian Life

Source: The Knowledge of the Holy: The Attributes of God: Their Meaning in the Christian Life

“Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs to be done; for reasons of inertia, pecuniary interest, passion or ignorance, we do not wish to say so.”

Ifs Knows Needs Reason Done Problem Passion Wish Difficult Interest Economic Ignorance Solutions Capitalism Difficulty Inertia Confronting Economic Problems

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“As science is more and more subject to grave misuse as well as to use for human benefit it has also become the scientist's responsibility to become aware of the social relations and applications of his subject, and to exert his influence in such a direction as will result in the best applications of the findings in his own and related fields. Thus he must help in educating the public, in the broad sense, and this means first educating himself, not only in science but in regard to the great issues confronting mankind today.”

“I fell asleep at my desk many times. This was when working on events—virtually every one I’ve done in the last 5 years. I was not confronting the writing of speeches. In fact, I was not wanting to confront what I was doing at the time—being irresponsible... I am now known for falling asleep. This has happened 50 times in the last 5 years and probably 20 times at my desk in the last 2 years.”

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Author:Mike Rinder

“I have a really hard time stepping out of a limousine and confronting a sh*tload of photographers who are all screaming at you, because it's like saying, 'yeah, yeah, here I am!'”

Hard Yeah Photographer Hard Times Here I Am Confronting Limousines

Author:Julia Ormond

“I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears.”

Interest Birthday Airplane Confronting

Author:Michael Trucco

“As a Jew and a psychologist, I understand the stress that religious communities feel in connection with questioning of circumcision... I raise these questions out of deep caring and compassion, for our community generally, and our male infants in particular. We are inflicting, generally, unrecognized harm with circumcision, and the perpetuation of this harm is far greater a concern than the discomfort that comes from confronting the advisability of this practice. Many Jews who do not circumcise in North America, South America, Europe, and Israel support this view.”

“What I love about the ministry of Jesus is that he identified the poor as blessed and the rich as needy...and then he went and ministered to them both. This, I think, is the difference between charity and justice. Justice means moving beyond the dichotomy between those who need and those who supply and confronting the frightening and beautiful reality that we desperately need one another.”

Source: A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master'

“I find that white people in general, including white liberals and even revolutionaries, are most inclined to call you a racist when they don't want to confront the ugly realities that their racism has created. In their eyes, when you attempt to address those realities from your perspective you become a racist.”

People Want Reality Eye White Perspective Becoming Findings Racism Including Ugly Revolutionary Addresses Racist Confronting Essayists Accepting Reality Anti Racist

Author:Runoko Rashidi

“I think the stage is set for the appearance of new faiths, centred on the UFO belief. To a greater degree than all phenomena modern science is confronting, the UFO can inspire awe, the sense of the smallness of man, and an idea of the possibility of contact with the cosmic. The religions we have briefly surveyed began with the miraculous experiences of one person, but to-day there are thousands for whom the belief in otherworldly contact is based on intimate conviction, drawn from what they regard as personal contact with UFOs and their occupants.”

“Our response to the world is essentially one of wonder, of confronting the mysterious with a sense, not of being small, or insignificant, but of being part of a rich and complex narrative.”

World Wonder Rich Response Complexes Mysterious Narrative Insignificant Confronting

Author:John Burnside

“Confronting climate change is, in the long run, one of the greatest challenges that we face, and you can see this duty or responsibility laid down in scriptures, clearly.”

Long Country Running Today Earth Faces Challenges Responsibility Duty Ought Majority Climate Response Climate Change Scripture Vulnerable Rooted Long Runs Stewardship Genesis Confronting

Author:John F. Kerry

“These are people that don't want to protect the American people... [T]hey will do anything, spend all the time and resources they can, to avoid confronting evil.”

People Want Evil Protect Resources Hey Confronting

Author:Tom DeLay

“Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it, they are idealized as simply gallant or pure; if they obstruct it, they are characterized as simply villainous or cowardly. Hence every typical character...tends to have his moral opposite confronting him, like black and white pieces in a chess game.”

Ifs Character Games Black White Moral Pieces Pure Opposites Chess Quests Black And White Typical Cowardly Confronting Chess Game Gallant

Author:Northrop Frye

“Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man!”

Men Littles Confronting

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Transmit your vision emotionally by gaining credibility, demonstrating passion, establishing relationships and communicating a felt need. Transmit it logically by confronting reality, formulating strategy, accepting responsibility, celebrating victory and learning from defeat.”

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