The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it. — William James Copy Share Image
After an encounter with the living Son of the living God, nothing is ever again to be as it was before. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
I like the distinction. It enables me to have more easygoing encounters in my private life. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I think everybody encounters difficulty. It's just more pitched in some people. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists. — Robert B. Laughlin Copy Share Image
I see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence. — Susan Meiselas Copy Share Image
I was never satisfied with casual encounters, I can't hide my need for two hearts that bleed with burning love. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all that you encounter. — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
It is neither a culture of confrontation nor a culture of conflict which builds harmony within and between peoples, but rather a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Losing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and the tragedy that you will encounter in the world more than winning ever can.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter. — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
And so I pray I am today as honest with myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
“With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have always found the times when another person recognizes you to be strangely sad; I suspect the pathos of these moments… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to… — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
we can search for and attain to only one being, that one which was given us, which is within us and which… — Georgette Leblanc Copy Share Image
It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which-miraculously, it seems-merge into a significant event. It provides… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
The course of human history consists of a series of encounters between individual human beings and God in which each man and… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
I've come to the conclusion that it's all about fear- fear that your kid won't come out on top, be a success.… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
This worship, given therefore to the Trinity of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, above all accompanies… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I have an unquenchable desire to slow down and find my life going deeper in my walk with Christ. I want to… — Joseph Stowell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter. — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
Freedom from spiritual conflicts and bondage is not a power encounter; it's a truth encounter. — Neil T Anderson Copy Share Image
The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, 'Here's my chance to grow.' — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
In life we encounter many people who, in some way or another, try to tattoo our faces. — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
He sometimes behaves like water, flowing around the obstacles he encounters. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them. — Stephan Jenkins Copy Share Image
As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table. — Anonymous Copy Share Image