"You can demonstrate determination and willingness to make difficult choices, to show backbone and courage, to confront adversity calmly and skillfully.
The festival is aimed at exploring and sharing insights on the craft of writing in its multiple forms, especially as a tool to confront adversity and maintain hope and dignity.
As we staggered across the finish line of our divorce, we'd learned how to confront adversity together.
But the readiness to confront, let alone embrace, these realities appears limited.
It is, first, a question of political will and readiness to confront reality.
Acceptance of undesired emotion and readiness to confront situations that cue these emotions appear to be particularly important for protecting against recurrence of depression.
Even if Orwell's allegory now seems a touch schematic, O'Riordan's vivacious production reminds us of its readiness to confront unpalatable truths.
The event is remembered in Ireland as "Bloody Sunday," and the queen's visit to the stadium was seen by analysts in Britain as a token of her readiness to confront a past whose violent passions linger.
It is this readiness to confront bitter facts, and to make their bitterness sweet through his art, that makes Hardy not just a great writer but a wise and trustworthy one.
The issues on the table are enormous — the financial health of a debt-ridden country, military readiness to confront a still-dangerous world and many thousands of jobs and contractor businesses in Congressional districts around the country.
His opponents dismiss him as attention-grabbing, but Mr. Assir's readiness to confront both Hezbollah and the influence of Syria and Iran in Lebanon resonates with many who are frustrated by the status quo.
