Encounter Quotes

716 Encounter quotes by 535 unique authors

Indeed, when I came to Italy, I expected to encounter a certain amount of resentment, but have received instead empathy from most Italians. In any… — Elizabeth Gilbert
My encounter with another world and another culture and the beginnings of an attachment to them had set up an irritation, barely perceptible but incurable-rather… — Andrei Tarkovsky
...being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneselfâ€”be it meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. The… — Viktor E. Frankl
Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child, for whom every object is new, experiences… — Wassily Kandinsky
some may think that to affirm dialogueâ€”the encounter of women and men in the world in order to transform the worldâ€”is naively and subjectively idealistic.… — Paulo Freire
Out of its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate courtesy. Producing… — V.S. Naipaul
It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for… — Douglas Adams
In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality. — Nhat Hanh
To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of… — Garth Stein
You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated — Ayn Rand
And so I pray I am today as honest with myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with all who I… — Jimmy Santiago Baca
The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that has sunk to… — Sue Monk Kidd
The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and… — John Berger
All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to… — Voltaire
It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is… — Daniel Handler
Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a… — Marilynne Robinson
As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our new experience: it… — Jack Kornfield
Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one sas them in the Mind's Eye, because one never remembered them as… — Marisha Pessl
While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God… — Brennan Manning
Away! Away! The spell of arms and voices: the white arms of roads, their promise of close embraces and the black arms of tall ships… — James Joyce

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