#facing

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#facing #history #life #me #poetry

Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn't what's important - facing it is. ↗

— Julien Smith

#anxiety #courage #courageous #facing-fear #fear

The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century. ↗

— Gabriel Lippmann

#century #colour #direct #facing #last

You just do it, then if you die, you die. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#facing-fear #fear #survival #courage

I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me. ↗

— Mary Pope Osborne

#facing-fears #fortitude #perseverance #courage

I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera. The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhhh! ↗

— Rick Riordan

#panic #percy-jackson #death

Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be. ↗

— Donald Miller

#facing-fear #resistance #life

I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure. ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#difficult-times #facing-problems #failure #life

We must step out of our digital avatars, and come together and have face-to-face dialogue as often as possible. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#bravery #discovery #facing-reality #love-yourself #reality

There didn't seem to be that much to say. If you loved Phoebe now, it was going to hurt you to see her. Like facing cold water, you just jumped in and swam anyway. ↗

— Tim Farrington

#love