Encounters Quotes · Page 6

The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it.

— William James

I like the distinction. It enables me to have more easygoing encounters in my private life.

— J. K. Rowling

I think everybody encounters difficulty. It's just more pitched in some people.

— Julia Cameron

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.

— Anonymous

Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.

— Rollo May

I think everyone has spiritual encounters and feelings but I don't think everyone chooses to acknowledge them.

— Ryan Montgomery

Every experience is an opportunity to encounter the Divine.

— Susan W. Krebs

To me, it’s encounters that matter, pictures are much less important.

— Anders Petersen

Losing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and the tragedy that you will encounter in the world more than winning ever can.…

— Pat Conroy

You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced…

— Maya Angelou

“His father was an attorney in Paris. He met Sebastien’s mother on a train to Amsterdam. There were no other seats. They…

— Simon Van Booy

For in this walk, this voyage, it is yourself, the profound history of your 'self,' that now as always you encounter.

— Conrad Aiken

When we encounter suffering, it is important to respond w/ compassion rather than to question the politics of those we help.

— Dalai Lama

Suppose you turn your attention inward in search of this 'I'. You may encounter nothing more than an ever changing stream of…

— Jim Holt

It's just that it's mind-boggling to me how many people I encounter every day who are struggling to subsist on a diet…

— Merlin Mann

The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an…

— Jarvis Cocker

Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the…

— Glenn Gould

What I know for sure is that your life is a multipart series of all your experiences- and each experience is created…

— Oprah Winfrey

I am a Jew, Israel is a Jewish state. . . . Israel’s case is my case, Israel’s enemies are my enemies,…

— Evgeny Kissin

You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to…

— Shaun Tan

The heart is our hidden center, beyond the grasp of our reason and of others; only the Spirit of God can fathom…

— Pope John Paul II

Oh yes, I dated Orson Welles. We had many encounters on both coasts. I remember the first time he saw me in…

— Maila Nurmi

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes…

— Aberjhani

He knows no other way but ugliness,” Sir Topher said quietly. “He was taught no other lessons but those of force. His…

— Melina Marchetta

Conversations...begin with the sort of imaginative engagement you get when you read a novel or watch a movie or attend to a…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

For just as some people want a purely spiritual Christ, without flesh and without the cross, they also want their interpersonal relationships…

— Pope Francis

“When a man touches a woman's body, he is not just touching her body. It goes MUCH DEEPER than that for a…

— Jim Anderson

I am sometimes perplexed by people who refer to defensive rifles, or defensive rifle shooting. The defensive arm is the pistol, since…

— Jeff Cooper

I speak as an unregenerate reader, one who still believes that language and not technology is the true evolutionary miracle. I have…

— Sven Birkerts

I am compassionate. I allow my heart and imagination to embrace the difficulties and concerns of others. While maintaining my own balance,…

— Julia Cameron

Yes, you make yourself useful, angel boy. Meanwhile, I’ll be in the bathroom.” William’s jet-black hair was dripping wet and plastered to…

— Gena Showalter

I have an unquenchable desire to slow down and find my life going deeper in my walk with Christ. I want to…

— Joseph Stowell

PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.

— Ambrose Bierce

If you never encounter anything in your community that offends you, then you are not living in a free society.

— Kim Campbell

Taking delight in random encounters that come our way is a wonderful reminder that God is in control.

— Mel Lawrenz

The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, 'Here's my chance to grow.'

— Zig Ziglar

Freedom from spiritual conflicts and bondage is not a power encounter; it's a truth encounter.

— Neil T Anderson

In life we encounter many people who, in some way or another, try to tattoo our faces.

— Dan Ariely

Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

— Abraham Kaplan

He sometimes behaves like water, flowing around the obstacles he encounters.

— Paulo Coelho