Life can be

Life can be cruel and terrible, 

and anyone who expects to escape that fact is asking for a life at sea without storms.

~Harry Emerson Fosdick

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There is

There is a deep tendency in human nature to become like that which we imagine ourselves to be.

~Harry Emerson Fosdick

Personality

Personality is not so much like a structure as like a river - it continuously flows, and to be a person is to be engaged in a perpetual process of becoming.

~Harry Emerson Fosdick

The fact is

The fact is that even a fearful danger if it be frankly and openly faced can provide one of the most stimulating experiences in life.

~Harry Emerson Fosdick

One major secret

One major secret of doing that (facing fear) is to feel the stimulus of hazardous occasions rather than the dread.

~Harry Emerson Fosdick

Human nature

Human nature is so constituted that it never flowers out until it escapes from absorbing self-concern.

~Harry Emerson Fosdick

From other facts

From other facts we may run away, but after every consciously or unconsciously maneuvered escape, we find ourselves back where we started, with ourselves on our hands.

~Harry Emerson Fosdick