When we trust our creativity we encounter a supreme kind of enjoyment - an amazement at the natural unfolding of life beyond… — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Every day you run into artists on the streets in SoHo or other creative people you want to do something with. There's… — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
I look at problems as opportunities and use every person, every incident, and every encounter as an opportunity to show a more… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I always notice the dysfunctional dynamic of human relationships because most places where you encounter it, people are trying to pretend it… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
I think dating courtesies are common courtesies that should be practiced in most all civilized encounters. I pine for the days of… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
A single week of Oprah takes you from bondage to all the violent terrors of life, to escape through vicarious encounters with… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
When I do encounter young women or aspiring filmmakers who tell me that I've inspired them or that my work means something… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say. — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
The problem [with genetic research] is, we're just starting down this path, feeling our way in the dark. We have a small… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, And, in strong proff of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Less and less frequently do we encounter people with the ability to tell a tale properly. More and more often there is… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The forgiveness of God is gratuitous liberation from guilt. Paradoxically, the conviction of personal sinfulness becomes the occasion of encounter with the… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I was a young boy when I met the Surrealists and the Dadaists. I admired them, and that is what they taught… — Stephane Hessel Copy Share Image
I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
Some Catholics have a concept I very much admire: the Sacrament of the Present Moment. It suggests that every moment of our… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
None of us knows the wisdom of the Lord. We do not know in advance exactly how He would get us from… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I sympathize the first, the direct and single-minded attack [Red Revolution]. I believe it to have been necessary and inevitable in Russia.… — Stuart Chase Copy Share Image
It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
When you go apartment-hunting in the South, you encounter little old ladies who ask you if you use strong drink. In New… — Florence King Copy Share Image
...the people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter, they imagine a thousand things about one another; meetings… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I suppose the thing I most would have liked to have known or been reassured about is that in the world, what… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The truly still mind, with which you were born, is the mind that moves freely. Without ignoring anything, it reacts wholeheartedly to… — Soko Morinaga Copy Share Image
In a world where concepts are so often deployed in an ad hoc fashion, half explored before being displaced by others, it… — Marilyn Strathern Copy Share Image
Life was to be a search, or nothing! But it was the fear that it was nothing that drove me forward. Every… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
You cannot, and will not, encounter a circumstance, or a single moment, that does not serve directly and immediately the need of… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Every time you encounter something that forces you to “handle it,” your self-esteem is raised considerably. You learn to trust that you… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
There's really not much in life that's as violent or traumatic as an encounter with somebody who really surprises you and opens… — John Maus Copy Share Image
When you encounter some problems, if you point your finger at yourself and not at others, this gives you control over yourself… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is imperative that we do not fear challenges that we have attracted to promote our growth. Every obstacle we encounter is… — Dannion Brinkley Copy Share Image
Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of… — Adrienne Clarkson Copy Share Image
Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and… — Meshell Ndegeocello Copy Share Image
Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. — Mark Jenkins Copy Share Image
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I've had some very close encounters with the other side. They chose me to do this - I was doing this all… — Zak Bagans Copy Share Image
Do we change every time we have a new encounter? Are we endlessly mutable? I think these are fascinating questions: it's a… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
The road itself is informative, because it forces you to respond spontaneously and to encounter the unexpected. It forces you to reassess… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image