Face Difficulties Positively Quotes & Sayings

Dash is the kind of guy who's always had to — David Levithan

We are warmed by fire, not by the smoke of the fire. We are carried over the sea by a ship, not by the wake of a ship. So too, what we are is to be sought in the invisible depths of our own being, not in our outward reflection in our own acts. We must find our real selves not in the froth stirred up by the impact of our being upon the beings around us, but in our own soul which is the principle of all our acts. — Thomas Merton

To tell the truth she was quite thrilled to be working at the very source of a magazine which helped build up much of her present misinformation. — Rona Jaffe

In these explanations it is presumed that an experiencing subject is one occasion of a sensitive reaction to an actual world.'

the rain falls
that had not been falling
and it is the same world — George Oppen

Sometimes what I'm looking for is the thing that will help renew people's interest in a writer that they may have written off as not their kind of writer. — John D'Agata

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it. — John Le Carre

It felt like fate. That if Gray Shadow and Caius could not find their way to each other, their bloodlines eventually did. — S.J. Himes

Hustling sex for cash ain't dangerous if you learn the tricks quick, and that means puttin' yourself in a different mindset. Always scout for an exit for when you need it. Act confident and tough and you won't get hurt. Being scared or nervous will get you cut up and stuffed in a fuckin' bag. — Jon Michaelsen

When you understand how the mind-brain functions together, you know that faith, which is believing before seeing, is the natural process of creation. — Robert Anthony

The darkness agrees with me. It asks me to release it, as loud as a roar and as quiet as a whisper. I remember what my sister said long ago: You must control the darkness. You can't ever give in to it. But the shadows want to make me happy, and I deserve a little happiness — Justina Ireland

We really can't forecast all that well, and yet we pretend that we can, but we really can't. — Alan Greenspan

It is, of course, much easier for a literary character to take a risk for love. The realities of social strata and responsibility mean nothing but a plot point in today's modern literature, but outside of these stories we are not pushing for change. The ideals we embody in our art rarely play themselves out in our lives. What would happen if we took the example of our fictional heroes; what if each of us was a Don Juan? — Evelyn Pryce

Let it not be death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Let the flight through the sky end in the folding of the wings over the nest. Let the last touch of your hands be gentle like the flower of the night. Stand still, O Beautiful End, for a moment, and say your last words in silence. I bow to you and hold up my lamp to light you on your way. — Rabindranath Tagore