Encounter Quotes

716 Encounter quotes by 535 unique authors

You are here on earth for a divine purpose. It is not to be endlessly entertained or to be constantly in full pursuit of pleasure.… — Richard G. Scott
We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment… — Paulo Coelho
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. Impart as much as you can of your spiritual… — Albert Schweitzer
...the people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter, they imagine a thousand things about one another; meetings which could take… — Italo Calvino
Every second of the search is an encounter with God. When I have been truly searching for my treasure, every day has been luminous...I've discovered… — Paulo Coelho
Fine, if you see no reason to worry about bisonbecks who do the bidding of Risto'-- he sat down on a log and pulled out… — Donita K. Paul
After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often… — Arthur C. Clarke
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know… — Maya Angelou
That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular and the most… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften… — Robert Louis Stevenson
The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with… — Paulo Coelho
What I bring to the interview is respect. The person recognizes that you respect them because you're listening. Because you're listening, they feel good about… — Studs Terkel
You can't do anything in life. The social barriers in life are so intense and horrific that every encounter is just fraught with so many… — Larry David
Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the law of… — Herbert Marcuse
Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands… — Tana French
Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter. — Oliver Goldsmith
Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work… — Neil Gaiman
God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it. — Amelie Nothomb
Every moment of searching is a moment of encounter. — Paulo Coelho
Vlad had found himself longing to encounter those of his own kind, to travel to the streets of Elysia-that far away world, but after a… — Heather Brewer

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