Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?" I do face facts," Meg said. They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.
Interpretation
Facing facts can be easier than facing people and their complexities.
In this quote, Meg expresses a common struggle between confronting objective truths and navigating interpersonal relationships. The idea is that while facts may seem straightforward, the emotional and social dynamics of dealing with people can be far more challenging, highlighting the complexity of human interactions and the difficulty in adjusting to both reality and social situations.
In practice
In a motivational speech about dealing with anxiety, this quote can illustrate the importance of facing personal challenges.
Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.
George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.
I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.
My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life.
I observe, I write, I try not to remember the life that I didn't want to loose but lost and have to remember, being here fills my heart with so much joy, even if the joy isn't mine, and at the end of the day I fill the suitcase with old news.
Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all.
...[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.
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