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“The trick is not escaping your fear, but confronting it and allowing it to drive and teach you. Only by getting to the bottom of your fears can you find their valuable lessons and move forward stronger than before.”

Author:David D. Burns

“The greater the force of your compassion, the greeater your resilience in confronting hardships.”

Spiritual Force Compassion Greater Resilience Hardship Confronting

Author:Dalai Lama

“The reason to drive this point home with a vivid and frank comparison is many New Yorkers are still not confronting the reality of how serious our crisis is. It was an exhortation to face reality.”

Stills Reason Home Reality Faces Serious Crisis Comparison Frank Vivid New Yorkers Confronting

Author:Eliot Spitzer

“Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the 'enemies' who appear from time to time in our lives.”

Source: My Spiritual Journey

“The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten all nations, just as science and information are the potential friends of all nations. Classical diplomacy and strategy were aimed at identifying enemies and confronting them. Now they have to identify dangers, global or local, and tackle them before they become disasters.”

“Reality is painful -- it's so much easier to keep doing stuff you know you're good at or else to pick something so hard there's no point at which it's obvious you're failing -- but it's impossible to get better without confronting it.”

Knows Hard Reality Stuff Impossible Failing Easier Picks Painful Obvious Get Better No Point Confronting

Author:Aaron Swartz

“I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs us on to do our best. A small step, in the midst of great human limitations, can be more pleasing to God than a life which appears outwardly in order but moves through the day without confronting great difficulties. Everyone needs to be touched by the comfort and attraction of God’s saving love, which is mysteriously at work in each person, above and beyond their faults and failings.”

Source: The Joy of the Gospel

“A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.”

Children Natural Hair Scientist Mere Tales Fairy Fairy Tale Impress Laboratory Confronting Marie Technicians Natural Phenomena Fairy Stories

Author:Marie Curie

“Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.”

Way Art Order Findings Art Is Chaos Confronting

Book:Collected Prose

Source: Collected Prose

“Maybe that is why there are not a whole lot of problems between the church and worldly culture today, because we are not confronting the culture around us.”

Whole Problem Today Culture Church Worldly Confronting

Author:Paul Washer

“A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.”

Men Subjects Confronting

Author:Claude Chabrol

“Christianity israrely understood by those outside its bounds. In fact, this is probably one of the greatest tasks confronting the apologist–to rescue Christianity from misunderstandings.”

Facts Christianity Understood Tasks Bounds Rescue Misunderstanding Confronting Apologetic

Author:Alister E. McGrath

“There are always risks when you chase after a dream because growth requires that you leave your comfort zone and enter unknown territory. But without confronting those risks and facing your fears, you'll never, as Nike says, "Just do it." Now the truth is, you may fail in some of your efforts, but you will never succeed if you are not willing to risk failure. And even if you do fail, you can learn from the experience and try again. To do that, you will need courage, and you will also need to have faith in your ability to achieve your goals.”

“A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together.”

Whole Stories Together Process Conflict Seeking Resolution Listeners Storyteller Confronting

Author:Maxine Hong Kingston

“Adventure is something out of the usual pattern, a point at which you cannot avoid confronting the unknown, so that you have to dig inside yourself to find the courage and resources to deal with what may lie ahead, and to succeed.”

May Lying Deals Adventure Succeed Resources Patterns Usual Confronting

Author:Bertrand Piccard

“Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity and the soul - forcing us to define ourselves and our relationship to the world.”

World Way Soul Animal Ultimate Guilt Innocence Our Relationship Falsehood Sanctity Confronting Truth And Falsehood Ultimate Questions

Book:Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy

Source: Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy

“Kosovo is now the biggest problem confronting Yugoslavia.”

Problem Confronting Kosovo Yugoslavia

Author:Josip Broz Tito

“At a time when threats to the physical environment have never been greater, it may be tempting to believe that people need to be mounting the barricades rather than asking abstract questions about the human place in nature. Yet without confronting such questions, it will be hard to know which barricades to mount, and harder still to persuade large numbers of people to mount them with us. To protect the nature that is all around us, we must think long and hard about the nature we carry inside our heads.”

People Thinking Knows Needs Believe Humans May Long Stills Hard Numbers Environment Greater Protect Harder Asking Threat Abstract Large Numbers Confronting Tempting Barricades

Author:William Cronon

“Art has a way of confronting us, of reminding us, of engaging us, in what it means to be human, and what it means to be human is to be flawed, is to be contradictory, is to be often weak, and yet despite all of these what we would consider drawbacks, that we're also quite beautiful. Spin is the opposite.”

Way Humans Mean Art Beautiful Weak Opposites Despite Engaging Flawed Contradictory Reminding Confronting Drawbacks What It Means To Be Human

Author:Junot Diaz

“A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this means is that we must address trees as we must address all things, confronting them in the awareness that we are in the presence of numinous mystery.”

Mean Self Mystery Tree Awareness All Things Roots Fruit Addresses Unseen Bark Confronting Numinous

Author:Brian Swimme

“So the real question confronting you now is: How can you afford not to be in God's Word?”

Real Study Confronting Real Questions

Book:Living By the Book/Living By the Book Workbook Set

Source: Living By the Book/Living By the Book Workbook Set

“Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting arguments to develop the skills and discipline required to produce a coherent analysis, based on logic and evidence. The implications of having so many people so incapable of confronting opposing arguments with anything besides ad hominem responses reach far.”

“There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world.”

World Problem Opinion Economic Behavior Mysterious Paradox Atoms Similarity Confronting

Author:Paul Dirac

“There are some historians who say that democratic republics dont last more than 200 years. Well, weve got to show that you can last more than 200 years. Weve got to continue to sustain the system, and the only way you can do it is by sustaining the constitution and by confronting lies face to face, head on, aggressively.”

Way Years Wells Shows Lasts Faces Lying Can Do Constitution Democratic Republic Historian You Can Do It Face To Face Confronting Sustaining Democratic Republic

Author:Maurice Hinchey

“Simplicity of living means meeting life face to face. It means confronting life clearly, without unnecessary distractions. It means being direct and honest in relationships of all kinds. It means taking life as it is.”

Kind Mean Faces Honest Direct Meetings Simplicity All Kinds Distraction Unnecessary Face To Face Confronting

Author:Duane Elgin

“Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates a vastly more dependable calm.”

Thinking Cases Worst Positive Thinking Anxiety Negative Calm Fleeting Scenarios Visualization Confronting Sap Dependable Worst Case Scenario

Author:Oliver Burkeman

“Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.”

Security Military Threat Currents Terror Alternatives Confrontation Suitable Confronting

Author:Jalal Talabani

“Many writers struggle with exposition in their novels. Often they heap it on in large chunks of straight narrative. Back story – what happens before the novel opens – is especially troublesome. How can we give the essentials and avoid a mere information drop? Use dialogue. First, create a tension-filled scene, usually between two characters. Get them arguing, confronting each other. Then you can have the information appear in the natural course of things.”

“Listening to other people's needs is listening to God. Noticing simple, natural beauty, hearing music, even confronting the challenge of pain and problems - that can all be listening to God too.”

People Needs Problem Pain Natural Challenges Simple Listening Hearing Noticing Confronting Listening To Others Listening To God Hearing Music

Book:Prayer: The Great Conversation : Straight Answers to Tough Questions about Prayer

Source: Prayer: The Great Conversation : Straight Answers to Tough Questions about Prayer

“Whatever is presented to him must be made beautiful and clear, striking his imagination. Once this love has been kindled, all problems confronting the educationist will disappear.”

Should Children Has Beens Made Problem Beautiful Clear Disappear Confronting

Author:Maria Montessori

“We know - intellectually - that confronting an issue is the only way to resolve it. But any resolution will disrupt the status quo. Given the choice between conflict and change on the one hand, and inertia on the other, the ostrich position can seem very attractive.”

Knows Way Hands Seems Choices Given Issues Position Conflict Attractive Resolve Resolution Status Quo Inertia Confronting Ostriches

Author:Margaret Heffernan

“There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes, but above me and within me, there was a spirit stronger than them all.”

Men Eye Spirit Stronger Angry Caught Confronting Angry Man

Author:Antoinette Brown Blackwell

“We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq.”

Iraq Aggressive Syria Confronting

Author:Sam Brownback

“A problem is solved not by confronting it directly, but by going to a level where no problem exists.”

Problem Levels No Problem Confronting

Author:Deepak Chopra

“The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens... within I don't know how many years, but in not too long a time, it's going to become basic common sense that you are not some alien being who confronts an external world that is not you, but that almost every intelligent person will have the feeling of being an activity of the entire universe.”

Knows World Feels Years Persons Long Feelings Culture Universe Common Know How Taught Activity Intelligent Myth Common Sense Aliens Identical Taught Us Confronting Intelligent Person

Author:Alan Watts

“Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power”

Feminism Bravery Males Patriarchy Confronting

Author:Andrea Dworkin

“Definition: Alpinism is the art of going through the mountains confronting the greatest dangers with the biggest of cares. What we call art here, is the application of a knowledge to an action.”

Art Care Action Danger Mountain Definitions Climbing Application Confronting Alpinism

Author:Rene Daumal

“Ferguson's out of order. He has lost all sense of reality. He is going out looking for a confrontation, then asking the person he is confronting to apologise. He's pushed the cork in a bit far this time.”

Persons Reality Order Lost Bits Asking Going Out Confrontation Intriguing Confronting Cork Ferguson Gunners

Author:Arsene Wenger

“I have come to Germany to learn at first hand the problems involved in the reconstruction of Germany and to discuss with our representatives the views of the United States Government as to some of the problems confronting us.”

Firsts States Problem Hands Government United Views United States Involved Germany Representatives Confronting Reconstruction State Government United States Government

Author:James F. Byrnes

“Confronting this regime and opposing Zionists are a national duty, as well as religious and Islamic duty, and a human duty. Even the people of Europe and America despise the Zionists. They hate them. They feel humiliated by the Zionists, who are a burden on them.”

People Feels Humans Wells America Hate Religious Duty Europe Burden Insane Islamic Despise Regimes Opposing Confronting Zionist Humiliated Europe And America

Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

“...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on the premise of nihilism and has nihilistic implications. I will not pretend that the case against nihilism and for civilization is an easy one to make. We are here confronting the most fundamental of philosophical questions, on the deepest levels. In short, the matter of pornography and obscenity is not a trivial one, and only superficial minds can take a bland and untroubled view of it.”

“Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.”

Needs Challenges Numbers Education Economy Higher Educated Confronting Higher Education Citizenry

Author:Margaret Spellings

“The most dangerous type of atheism is not theoretical atheism, but practical atheism -that's the most dangerous type. And the world, even the church, is filled up with people who pay lip service to God and not life service. And there is always a danger that we will make it appear externally that we believe in God when internally we don't. We say with our mouths that we believe in him, but we live with our lives like he never existed. That is the ever-present danger confronting religion. That's a dangerous type of atheism.”

“By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can possibly envisage, mountains refute our excessive trust in the man-made. They pose profound questions about our durability and the importance of our schemes. They induce, I suppose, a modesty in us.”

Men Made Force Greater Mountain Importance Profound Modesty Schemes Confronting Invoke Mountain Climbing Mountain Top Durability

Book:Mountains Of The Mind

Source: Mountains Of The Mind

“My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a playwright. It's quite embarrassing, it's quite unpleasant, it's quite awkward.”

People Needs Humans Human Beings Style Crafts Awkward Embarrassing Indulge Playwright Confronting

Book:Writing Wrongs: The Work of Wallace Shawn

Source: Writing Wrongs: The Work of Wallace Shawn

“Be the buffalo. Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee nation, once told me how the cow runs away from the storm while the buffalo charges directly toward it—and gets through it quicker. Whenever I'm confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment. I become the buffalo.”

“I have that gene mutation too and it’s not something I would believe in for myself. I wouldn’t call it the brave choice. I actually think it’s the most fearful choice you can make when confronting anything with cancer. My belief is that cancer comes from inside you and so much of it has to do with the environment of your body. It’s the stress that will turn that gene on or not.”

Thinking Believe Body Turns Choices Belief Environment Stress Brave Cancer Your Body Fearful Genes Confronting Mutation

Author:Melissa Etheridge

“Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love.”

Light Injustice Corruption Transformed Power Of Love Confronting

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Cyberspace is the battlefield of tomorrow... Instead of confronting us head-to-head on the traditional battlefield, adversaries will confront the U.S. at its point of least resistance- our information infrastructure.”

Military Information Tomorrow Resistance Traditional Infrastructure Adversaries Battlefields Confronting Cyberspace

Author:Fred Thompson

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