We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.
When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. Inner peace is not found by staying on the surface of life, or by attempting to escape from life through any means. Inner peace is found by facing life squarely, solving its problems, and delving as far beneath its surface as possible to discover its verities and realities.
Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.
I remember my emotions the day we watched Nelson Mandela walk out of prison Writing & literature in South Africa during the anti-apartheid years, became a 'cultural weapon. ' You had to use it to fight apartheid & some of us resisted that in the end, you recognize that you are facing a government that has no scruples about using culture & art to oppress you.
[Hezbollah, Iran, and Russia] are here because they could offer very essential and important help, because the situation that we are facing now is not only about a few terrorists from within Syria; it's like international war against Syria.
Considering that future generations will be far better off than current generations even after accounting for climate change, it would be more equitable for today's industrialized world to help solve the real problems facing today's poorer developing world than to mitigate climate change now to help reduce the burden on future populations that would not only be wealthier but also technologically superior.
I believe in facing reality. But only because I don't like turning my back on it.
Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.
We are stronger together. We are stronger together in facing our internal challenges and our external ones.
You can't help but. . . with 2020 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today. '
I'm not trying to say that we're facing or looking at a likely repeat of history. It would be great if we were.
We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West.
In fact, in the far North one sees the northern lights facing south!
One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.
The main international problem facing America is our lack of - our loss of influence in the world and our lack of an ability to define what U. S. interests really are.
The most important question facing the planet is: Is it worth it?
When this No-Mind has been well developed, the mind does not stop with one thing nor does it lack any one thing. It appears appropriately when facing a time of need.
Sometimes you can’t let go of the past without facing it again.
Facing facts is always empowering.
No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.