Confront Quotes

469 quotes by 391 authors

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life… — Mother Teresa
[T]he more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can transform… — Paulo Freire
...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy. — Marianne Williamson
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock… — Arundhati Roy
I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes… — Cassandra Clare
Ruin, weariness, death, perpetually death, stand grimly to confront the other presence of Elizabethan drama which is life: life compact of frigates, fir trees and… — Virginia Woolf
Playing the part of a charitable soul was only for those who were afraid of taking a stand in life. It is always far easier… — Paulo Coelho
Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person who harbors them… — Amin Maalouf
To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable… — David Foster Wallace
If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary… — Agatha Christie
Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. Such friendship is creative and critical;… — John O'Donohue
Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who directly… — Paulo Freire
When I confront a human being as my Thou and speak the basic word I-Thou to him, then he is no thing among things nor… — Martin Buber
What is a personal calling? It is God's blessing, it is the path that God chose for you here on Earth. Whenever we do something… — Paulo Coelho
You are putting yourself in serious danger...' I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my shame. My shame… — Marjane Satrapi
It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others ad fight for your rights... — Paulo Coelho
If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal.… — Tom Robbins
There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike the slight implications of quotidian… — Lionel Shriver
This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare,… — Terry Tempest Williams
Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny. — Diane Setterfield

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