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“If Spirituality is that you're humble in the face of forces greater than you and you believe those forces are more inclined toward being good than being bad, then I'm a spiritual person.”

Ifs Believe Persons Faces Spiritual Spirituality Force Greater Humble Be Good Being Bad

Author:Michael J. Fox

“The issues facing working women and their families are closest to my heart. I decided to focus intently on the challenges military wives face because they juggle the same pressures as their nonmilitary peers, all while coping as single parents while their loved ones are overseas. I wanted to help make their voices heard.”

Heart Helping Wanted Faces Parent Voice Challenges Issues Focus Wife Heard Military My Heart Decided Pressure Loved Ones Closest Peers Coping Single Parent Working Women

Author:Michelle Obama

“Well everyone's a world class ground fighter until they get a punch to the face. So that's how I deal with all these ground fighters like everyone else. I hit 'em in the head and there goes your F**king black belt.”

World Wells Faces Black Deals Class Kings Fighter Ems Belts World Class Black Belt

Author:Mark Hunt

“The only proper mask to wear in life is your own damn face.”

Self Faces Life Is Authenticity Damn Mask

Author:Toni Cade Bambara

“I had to face the facts, I was pear-shaped. I was a bit depressed because I hate pears. 'Specially their shape.”

Facts Body Faces Hate Bits Shapes I Hate Pears

Author:Charlotte Bingham

“Life presents us with repeated opportunities to face what we fear, what we need to become conscious of, or what we need to master.”

Needs Faces Opportunity Masters Conscious

Author:Jean Shinoda Bolen

“boredom has a tendency to bring out the worst in people's faces.”

People Faces Worst Tendencies Boredom

Book:The Best of Everything

Source: The Best of Everything

“... I see the country going fascist. We have been going that route a long, long time. A lot of things the country has done from its inception were fascist. But now, now I think we are in the face of a terrible fascist dictatorship.”

Thinking Long Has Beens Country Done Faces Terrible Long Time Dictatorship Routes Fascists Inception

Book:Conversations with Margaret Walker

Source: Conversations with Margaret Walker

“Let's face it: None of us are ever going to get to the place in life where we have no more disappointments. We can't expect to be sheltered from every little thing. Disappointment is a fact of life--one that must be dealt with.”

Littles Facts Faces Disappointment Little Things Facts Of Life Place In Life

Author:Joyce Meyer

“I've seen 'karma' slap people in the face. You have to be good to people. It really does come around.”

People Doe Faces Be Good Karma Slap

Author:Kirsten Dunst

“We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.”

Faces Courage Adversity

Author:Thomas Bernhard

“Because Scientology is perceived and conceived by Scientologists as being this salvation for mankind, you can have people that lie with a very straight face if they believe that what they are doing is protecting the Church of Scientology.”

People Ifs Believe Faces Lying Church Mankind Salvation Scientology Straight Face

Author:Mike Rinder

“If you haven't had a major fail in your career - face-plant level - you aren't trying hard enough.”

Ifs Trying Hard Enough Faces Levels Careers Failing Havens Majors Plant Trying Hard

Author:Sallie Krawcheck

“I have noticed that people tend to stop maturing when they start self-medicating. Everyone has very tough seasons of life, but by persevering through them we have an opportunity to mature and grow as people. Those who self-medicate...often thwart maturity as they escape the tough seasons of life rather than face them.”

People Self Faces Opportunity Grows Tough Seasons Maturity Mature Seasons Of Life Self Medicating

Author:Mark Driscoll

“Every time you envy someone you use a muscle in your face to disadvantage. If you do it only once or twice, it can be erased. But over a period of years, those muscles will tighten your mouth, narrow your eyes, and help destroy your attractiveness.”

Ifs Years Helping Use Eye Faces Periods Mouths Envy Muscles Your Face Disadvantages Attractiveness

Author:Arlene Dahl

“And what movies we saw! All the actors and actresses whose photographs I collected, with their look of eternity! Their radiance, their eyes, their faces, their voices, the suavity of their movements! Their clothes! Even in prison movies, the stars shone in their prison clothes as if tailors had accompanied them in their downfall.”

Ifs Looks Eye Faces Actors Stars Voice Saws Movement Clothes Eternity Prison Photograph Actresses Movie Radiance Downfall Tailors Actors And Actresses

Book:Borrowed Finery: A Memoir

Source: Borrowed Finery: A Memoir

“faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within.”

Soul Age Faces Youth Absolutes Mirrors Deceiving Loveliness

Book:THE DETECTIVE EBENEZER GRYCE MYSTERIES – Complete Collection: 11 Mystery Novels in One Volume: New York Murder-Mysteries: The Leavenworth Case, A Strange Disappearance, The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow, Hand and Ring, That Affair Next Door, Lost Man’s Lane, The Circular Study, One of My Sons…

Source: THE DETECTIVE EBENEZER GRYCE MYSTERIES – Complete Collection: 11 Mystery Novels in One Volume: New York Murder-Mysteries: The Leavenworth Case, A Strange Disappearance, The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow, Hand and Ring, That Affair Next Door, Lost Man’s Lane, The Circular Study, One of My Sons…

“Truly, the challenges we face are not Democratic challenges or Republican challenges. In fact, they are not political challenges at all; they are fiscal challenges, and educational challenges, and the challenges of figuring out how to take care of each other...”

Facts Care Faces Political Challenges Republican Democratic Feminist Educational Take Care Challenges We Face

Author:Christine Gregoire

“It is not permissible to lie merely to save one's face. But it is sometimes permissible to lie to save another person's face.”

Persons Sometimes Faces Lying

Book:Modes and Morals

Source: Modes and Morals

“Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.”

Humans Play Feelings Age Faces Surface Tricks Visible Mask Repressed Human Faces

Book:I

Source: I

“Avoidance is a great tool to get away from food in my face all day long.”

Long Faces Food Tools Get Away Avoidance

Book:I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

Source: I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

“... there is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.”

Faces Terrified Skeletons Will To Live

Book:Frida Kahlo, 1910-1954: an exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Source: Frida Kahlo, 1910-1954: an exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

“Lightly I sped when hope was high And youth beguiled the chase,-- I follow, follow still: But I Shall never see her face.”

Stills Faces Youth Disappointment Sped

Book:London Lyrics

Source: London Lyrics

“Clothes are not Botox. Wearing a miniskirt does not take 10 years off your face.”

Years Doe Faces Clothes Your Face Botox

Author:Stacy London

“at this point I meet Me face to face. I am Mary MacLane: of no importance to the wide bright world and dearly and damnably important to Me.”

World Important Faces Importance Wide Mary Face To Face

Book:Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader

Source: Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader

“Love is very funny business. And sex - well, let's face it, sex is hysterical.”

Wells Faces Sex Love Is Hysterical Funny Business

Author:Nora Roberts

“We no more forget the faces of our enemies than of those we love.”

Faces Forget Enemy Those We Love

Book:Talking to Strange Men

Source: Talking to Strange Men

“And looking into the face of ... one dead man we see two dead, the man and the life of the woman who gave him birth; the life she wrought into his life! And looking into his dead face someone asks a woman, what does a woman know about war? What, what, friends in the face of a crime like that, what does man know about war?”

Knows Men Doe Two War Faces Asks Crime He Man Birth Dead Man

Author:Anna Howard Shaw

“relationships. That's all there really is. There's your relationship with the dust that just blew in your face, or with the person who just kicked you end over end. ... You have to come to terms, to some kind of equilibrium, with those people around you, those people who care for you, your environment.”

People Kind Persons Ends Care Faces Term Environment Dust Your Face Our Relationship Who Cares Our Environment Equilibrium Care For You

Book:Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko

Source: Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko

“It is men who face the biggest problems in the future, adjusting to their new and complicated role.”

Men Problem Faces Roles Complicated Adjusting

Author:Anna Ford

“Tis not for golden eloquence I pray, A godlike tongue to move a stony heart-- Methinks it were full well to be apart In solitary uplands far away, Betwixt the blossoms of a rosy spray, Dreaming upon the wonderful sweet face Of Nature, in a wild and pathless place.”

Wells Heart Dream Faces Moving Wonderful Sweet Praying Solitude Tongue Golden Far Away Solitary I Pray Eloquence Spray Godlike Rosy Sweet Face

Author:Frederick Tennyson

“The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray.”

Different Light Faces Genius Gray Shed Splendor Revive Hue Spenser

Book:Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature

Source: Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature

“A book becomes a mirror, with the author's face shining over it. Talent only gives an imperfect image,--the broken glimmer of a countenance. But the features of genius remain unruffled. Time guards the shadow. Beauty, the spiritual, Venus,--whose children are the Tassos, the Spensers, the Bacons,--breathes, the magic of her love, and fixes the face forever.”

Giving Children Book Faces Spiritual Forever Magic Talent Broken Genius Shadow Mirrors Shining Breathe Features Over It Imperfect Countenance Venus Spenser

Author:Robert Aris Willmott

“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me...you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it. Therefore I will trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.”

Knows May Ideas Seems Faces Lost Lord Shadow No Idea Leaving Me Peril Leading Me Lord God Right Road Shadow Of Death Never Leave Me

Author:Thomas Merton

“We have dedicated our lives, our blood, to the freedom and liberation of our people, and nothing, no force can stop us from achieving our goal. If it is necessary to destroy the United States of America, then let us destroy it with a smile on our faces.”

People Ifs States America Faces Force Goal United United States Our Lives Blood Achieve Activism Liberation Dedicated United States Of America

Author:Eldridge Cleaver

“Sometimes we ask ourselves 'Why?' Why do I continue to smile, to give, to live? Why do I continue to stand, despite the ferocity of the wind that keeps blowing, that keeps slapping against my face, creating a pressure that says 'fall'? Why I don't I listen to those who call me a fool because I continue to love despite my hurt? I don't know what tomorrow brings; I don't know if my troubles will seize or if my sorrows will continue. But this much I do know - I will continue to hold out, I will continue to press on, until my blessing comes.”

Ifs Knows Giving Sometimes Motivational Faces Fall Asks Hurt Trouble Wind Fool Tomorrow Sorrow Blessing Creating Pressure Presses Despite Call Me My Blessing Ferocity Slapping Tomorrow Brings

Author:Shane Smith

“The best places to live, work, and visit are those places that are willing to uphold their standards in the face of pressure to allow lowest common denominator development... Successful communities understand that when they say no to development that is contrary to the long-term health of their community, they will almost always get better development in its place.”

“I must to the barber's, monsieur, for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face.”

Faces Fashion Marvellous Barbers

Author:William Shakespeare

“The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations.”

Men Humans Faces Sound Generations Sacrifice Dog Passing Passings Taoism Immune Straws

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I get inspiration from things that have nothing to do with painting: caricature, items from newspapers, sights in the street, proverbs, nursery-rhymes, children's games and songs, nightmares, desires, terrors. ... That question [why do you paint?] has been put to me before and my answer was, 'To give terror a face.' But it's more than that. I paint because I can't help it.”

Source: Paula Rego

“The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.”

Thinking Humans Earth Faces Brain Objects Complexes Honestly Human Brain

Author:Bill Viola

“I get up between 6:30 and 7 A.M., and my morning routine is always the same: hot water and lemon, eggs on toast and rose oil on the face.”

Faces Water Morning Hot Rose Oil Get Up Eggs Routine Toasts Lemons Hot Water Morning Routines

Author:Alice Temperley

“Be present, from moment to moment, right in the middle of the real stream of time. That gives you spiritual security. That is why in Buddhism we don't try to escape from impermanence; we face time itself in our daily living.”

Giving Trying Real Moments Faces Spiritual Time Middle Security Buddhism Streams Spiritual Wisdom Impermanence Time Passing Moments In Time Daily Living Inconstancy

Author:Dainin Katagiri

“You have to do your best to face every moment, because this moment will never come again. The moment that you are living right now is a very important opportunity to make your life vividly alive. If you want to live with spiritual security in the midst of constant change, you have to burn the flame of your life force in everything you do.”

Ifs Want Important Moments Faces Spiritual Opportunity Force Change Alive Security Right Now Constant Flames Midst Living Right Living Right Now

Book:Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time

Source: Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time

“The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.”

Soul Faces Form Features Faculty

Book:PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

Source: PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

“Out of the debris of a statue thoroughly shattered a new art work is born: a naked foot unforgettably resting on a stone; a candid hand; a bent knee which contains all the speed of the foot race; a torso which has no face to prevent us from loving it.”

Art Hands Faces Born Race Feet Stones Speed Naked Knees Bent Statues Shattered Candid Debris Torso

Author:Stephanie Crayencour

“A man who becomes used to deluding himself, who fails to face his own faults with revolutionary honesty and even lies to himself, is the most likely to become a traitor, since lying is the beginning of treachery.”

Men Faces Used Lying Failing Honesty Faults Revolutionary Traitor Treachery

Author:Ashraf Dehghani

“Courage is defined as: the ability to face danger, difficulty, uncertainty, or pain without being overcome by fear or being deflected from a chosen course of action. Many of today's world leaders have great courage: I wonder... would we be better off with cowardice?”

World Today Action Pain Faces Courses Ability Leader Wonder Danger Overcoming Difficulty Chosen Defined Uncertainty Cowardice Better Off World Leader Today's World

Author:Joshua Fernandez

“Unfortunately, the optimistic view that "classical civilization" handed down certain fundamental works that managed to include the knowledge contained in the lost writings has proved groundless. In fact, in the face of a general regression in the level of civilization, it's never the best works that will be saved through an automatic process of natural selection.”

Writing Facts Faces Certain Lost Process Natural Levels Views Civilization Fundamentals Saved Optimistic Selection Best Work Natural Selection Regression

Book:The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn

Source: The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn

“It is now necessary to face the truth and to acknowledge against all prejudices that the struggle that the Albanian tribe is leading today is a natural and unavoidable historic struggle for a different political life than that experienced under Turkish rule - different also from that which its neighbours Serbia, Greece and Montenegro would like to force upon the Albanians.”

Different Today Faces Political Force Natural Struggle Prejudice Acknowledge Tribes Historic Greece Neighbour Turkish Political Life Serbia Facing The Truth Albanian

Author:Dimitrije Tucovic