Browsing Topic Best Faces Quotes

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

The greatest pleasures of love are inseparable from its greatest pains: Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot.

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face.

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

Faith is an adventure; it is the courage of the soul to face the unknown. But that courage springs from the hope and confidence of the soul that its adventure will succeed.

I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

Always walk towards open doors. And if they slam shut in your face, kick that sucker in and keep going.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.

I love the fact that I can make people happy, in any form. Even if it’s just an hour of their lives, if I can make them feel lucky or make them feel good, or bring a smile to a sour face, that to me is worthwhile.

Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.

We are the mirror – As well as the face in it.

We all face death in the end. But on the way, be careful never to hurt a human heart!

When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery.

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.

Well everybody’s got a secret, son, something that they just can’t face. Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it, they carry it with them every step that they take Till some day they just cut it loose, cut it loose or let it drag ’em down Where no one asks any questions or looks too long in your face In the darkness on the edge of town.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

It is not where you start out in life that counts the most, it is how you choose to face it.

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.

I take life for what it has to offer me. I don’t get aggravated about [getting older]. The wrinkles on my face are a natural process, so why should I get angry?

France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter – it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart.

Any work of love brings a person face to face with God.

Beauty once seemed to me to be an accident of nature… But now that I can see my life on my face, I realize we earn the way we end up looking. Time, it seems, gives us all a chance to really be beautiful.

Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him.