#facing

Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries. ↗

— Hu Jintao

#change #climate #climate change #countries #development

We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#big problems #country #facing #passing #problems

The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#greatest #greatest threat #humanity #meeting #nuclear

Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint. ↗

— Garry Trudeau

#actually #after #altered #attainable #been

We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon ↗

— Walter Scott

#facing-problems #adversity

Once we face our fear, once we treat our anxiety itself as a thing, we can then choose otherwise. Instead of filling the unknown in our minds with expectations of the tragic, we can choose to fill the void with a different expectation – the expectation of adventure. For example, Seneca, the Greek philosopher, refused to be afraid of what he did not know. When asked if he was afraid of dying, he replied, “Absolutely not, why should I be afraid of something I know nothing about.” His orientation toward the unknown of death was not to fill the gap in his understanding with horror but potential. ↗

— David W. Jones

#death #disney-world #facing-fear #facing-problems #fear

Some people walk through a hallway with covered mirrors– the hallway is lined with mirrors but there are blankets covering each of them. They go through life believing in an image of themselves that isn't real, and an image of themselves standing in the world and relative to the world, that isn't real. If you happen to be in that hallway and pull the blankets off the mirrors, they're going to think that you're hurting them; but they're actually just seeing their reflection for the first time. Sometimes the most horrendous thing a person can see, is all the hidden things inside them, the things they've covered, the things they choose not look at. And you're not hurting them, you're setting them free. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#freedom #inspirational-life #inspirational-living #reality-check #self-acceptance

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#data #declare #even #facing #like

The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control. ↗

— Jeff Flake

#bring #center #control #country #crisis

A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#approach #best #challenge #decisions #environmental