Come Upon Quotes
107 quotes by 96 authors
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You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work,…
— C.S. Lewis
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For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
— Catherine Drinker Bowen
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All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.
— Blaise Pascal
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If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love…
— Rajneesh
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The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him.
— Confucius
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Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the sweetest, ripest hour…
— John Burroughs
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Bring thyself to account each day ere thou art summoned to a reckoning; for death, unheralded, shall come upon thee and thou shalt be called…
— Bahá'u'lláh
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Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come…
— Sigmund Freud
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Luke associates John with Peter in Acts, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples.
— Alfred Noyes
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One of the troubles of the day, observes Mr. C.N. Peac, is that once we came upon the little red schoolhouse, whereas now we come…
— Bennett Cerf
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When you come upon a difficult task ... start.
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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How can this come about?" Mary asked. "The Holy Spirit will come upon you," the angel answered, "and the power of the Most High will…
— John of Damascus
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It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to…
— Jules Renard
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No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come…
— Martin Luther
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I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon…
— Myrtle Reed
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What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise…
— Wayne Dyer
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So the Buddha is presenting awakening not as a single mystical experience that may come upon us at some meditation, some private moment of transcendence,…
— Stephen Batchelor
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Just about any story we think about doing, whether we've read it in a newspaper, heard it on the radio or come upon it through…
— Connie Chung
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There is nothing that we are enduring that Jesus does not understand, and He waits for us to go to our Heavenly Father in prayer.…
— Robert D. Hales
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