What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our…

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

— John Calvin

All great men are play actors of their own ideal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I've seen what you're going to understand, dear. It made me patient when confronting your temper.”

— Toba Beta

Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult…

— Annie E. Clark

I can't agree that what we're seeing is a matter of the American bourgeoisie confronting workers everywhere. It's more like the international plutocracy eliminating…

— Hendrik Hertzberg

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

— Claude Chabrol

We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural and intellectual…

— Sam Harris

There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes, but above me and within me, there was a spirit…

— Antoinette Brown Blackwell

While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced by the…

— Robert Darnton

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of…

— Alan Watts

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

— Margaret Spellings

I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what we say, though that can be…

— Stanley Hauerwas

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…

— Pope Francis

The challenge in confronting Trump is that there are certain things that he does that that you have to respond to, just morally. When…

— Pete Buttigieg

A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this…

— Brian Swimme