Encounters Quotes · Page 5

There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the…

— Florynce Kennedy

I’m not trying to turn you into cowboys, I’m just trying to get you better coordinated, get your horse used to things,…

— Buck Brannaman

What does happen constantly with all kinds of people I meet is they say "I had this encounter with Jesus, can you…

— Rob Bell

There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not…

— May Sarton

Prayer is both conversation and encounter with God.

— Timothy Keller

Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter.

— Henri Nouwen

people who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one

— Alice Munro

Today is [the feast of] Santa Rita, Patron Saint of impossible things - but this seems impossible: let us ask of her…

— Pope Francis

Many things happen in life. There are joyous days and times of suffering. Sometimes unpleasant things occur. But that's what makes life…

— Daisaku Ikeda

What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.

— Leslie Caron

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in…

— Naguib Mahfouz

Visit your local supermarket or retail chain. You'll experience a lot of visual stimulus, but it's unlikely that your other senses will…

— Martin Lindstrom

This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the end, the only events of my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world erupted into this transitory one…

— Carl Jung

There are people who are out to take advantage of others and some who are merely putting in their time. But most…

— David Livermore

My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the…

— Annie Leibovitz

You are a creature of Divine Love connected at all times to Source. Divine Love is when you see God in everyone…

— Wayne Dyer

Women, in all fields - whether mothers or not - still encounter an extraordinary number of obstacles. They have to hold too…

— Elena Ferrante

The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.

— James Allen

You are here on earth for a divine purpose. It is not to be endlessly entertained or to be constantly in full…

— Richard G. Scott

Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to…

— Neil Gaiman

It's true that every road leads to God. But only one way leads to a pleasant encounter with Him.

— Kevin DeYoung

An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in…

— Anonymous

Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one sas them in the Mind's Eye, because one never…

— Marisha Pessl

I always thought that Seth [Rogen] was a fun, caustic, bombastic, sweet, underdog-type of person that I would root for the way…

— Judd Apatow