The secret principle of martial arts is not vanquishing the attacker, but resolving to avoid an encounter before its occurrence. To become… — Gichin Funakoshi Copy Share Image
True nonattachment is understanding that you are fundamentally attached to everything and, through that understanding, dropping your attachment to the view that… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
The peace of the Eastern church was invaded by a swarm of fanatics [monks], incapable of fear, or reason, or humanity; and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Trump says things others so desperately want to say to people that work, to people wherever they encounter them. Trump says it.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
A certain type of person strives to become a master over all, and to extend his force, his will to power, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Zen, like life, defies exact definition, but its essence is the experience, moment by moment, of our own existence -- a natural,… — David Fontana Copy Share Image
A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by… — Herbert Muschamp Copy Share Image
I shall never forget my first encounter with gorillas. Sound preceded sight. Odor preceded sound in the form of an overwhelming, musky-barnyard,… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
I decided to go to the night, myself, and started to go out to the fields, where I would encounter things that… — Michal Rovner Copy Share Image
All my photographs are about meetings and about coups de foudre - love at first sight. To do that type of photography,… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm sure a handful of people can relate to that experience of having some kind of romantic encounter - the event of… — John Maus Copy Share Image
As we lose our vagueness about ourself, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I often think that all the difficulties we encounter only give us the more strength if we keep hold of our work,… — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
When I'm happy, when I'm enjoying life, I'm home, I'm surfing, I'm spending time with my wife, my friends and I'm not… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I am humanly unable to correct my negative self-image until I encounter a life-changing experience with non-judgmental love bestowed upon me by… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
Life isn't always smooth. If it were, we would never grow & develop as human beings. If we succeed, we are envied;… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Most of us encounter a great deal more Mystery than we are willing to experience. Sometimes knowing life requires us to suspend… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Russia and the U. S. have announced they are definitely planning several space machines. So it's quite possible that the first space… — Donald Keyhoe Copy Share Image
The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
I do not need to establish a deep, lasting, time-consuming personal relationship with every student. What I must do is to be… — Nel Noddings Copy Share Image
How dangerous are those sea animals with bad reputations? A few actually kill. A few maim. Some are poisonous when eaten by… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
He must be able to hear them [the counter arguments] from persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion,'" she repeats, making sure of it. If she had paper and pencil, it wouldn't surprise… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When we encounter the world of ideas for the first time, we easily get overwhelmed. Scripture is telling us, 'Don't be distracted… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
I define Inner Space as an imaginary realm in which on the one hand the outer world of reality, and on the… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The volcano itself wasn't that interesting, but the man who refused to be evacuated - the only one of 75,000 people -… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I feel like my soul yearns to experience something new at all times. That may be an encounter with a new place… — Dash Mihok Copy Share Image
It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Dr. Fell, do you believe a man could become so obsessed with a woman, from a single encounter? Could he daily feel… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
The creation of all those symbols and logotypes which are an ever more striking feature of the world in which we live… — Armin Hofmann Copy Share Image
Our amended Constitution is the lodestar for our aspirations. Like every text worth reading, it is not crystalline. The phrasing is broad… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Real faith means holding ourselves open to the unconditional mystery which we encounter in every sphere of our life and which cannot… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
From that awful encounter of the soul with the outer world, enunciation, wisdom, and charity are born; and with their birth a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When you have police officers like Office Encinia who is a trained professional, who is trained to de-escalate a situation where a… — Sharon Cooper Copy Share Image
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![“The peace of the Eastern church was invaded by a swarm of fanatics [monks], incapable of fear, or reason, or humanity; and the Imperial troops acknowledged, without shame, that they were much less apprehensive of an encounter with the fiercest Barbarians.” quote by Edward Gibbon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/15b/edward-gibbon-710_barbarians_the-peace-of-the-eastern-church-was-inva_2066326.png)
![“He must be able to hear them [the counter arguments] from persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and do their very utmost for them. He must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form; he must feel the whole force of the difficulty which the true view of the…” quote by John Stuart Mill](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/df8/john-stuart-mill-477_able_he-must-be-able-to-hear-them-the-counter_1955293.jpg)
![“The volcano itself wasn't that interesting, but the man who refused to be evacuated - the only one of 75,000 people - was what set the tone for the film ["Encounters at the End of the World"] that we made together [with Clive Oppenheimer] ten years later.” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6c0/werner-herzog-964_encounters_the-volcano-itself-wasn-t-that-interesti_2537122.jpg)
