Encounters Quotes

743 Encounters quotes by 571 unique authors

People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types… — Pete Rozelle
Confessions of a Video Vixen' is not a book about my encounters with celebrities, or anyone else for that matter. It is my life story,… — Karrine Steffans
Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they… — Karlheinz Stockhausen
Anyone who seeks enlightenment is going to encounter opposition, whether it is from their society or from non-physical forces or friends or whatever it is.… — Frederick Lenz
I have an unquenchable desire to slow down and find my life going deeper in my walk with Christ. I want to meet him in… — Joseph Stowell
Human beings, when they encounter that which can't be understood, either run away from it, run towards it blindly, or just rationalize it out of… — Frederick Lenz
People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people -… — Neil Postman
We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity... the reading of a text is a transaction… — Paulo Freire
While others are engaged in inferior and menial tasks in which they encounter many difficulties, how can I sit here at peace and do nothing?… — Shantideva
Our rational minds often attempt to minimise or negate the mystical encounters. We forget the power of our experiences. We must embrace the reality of… — Brian Weiss
As Christians we are here to affirm the supreme value of direct sharing, of immediate encounter -not machine to machine, but person to person, face… — Kallistos Ware
The pulp hero, though he may be a renegade, is a guy who doesn't feel. Anything. Ever. And for the adolescent male - pummeled by… — Samuel R. Delany
If you really want to help, then help others to be more present. Help others to free themselves from the past. Help others to take… — Leonard Jacobson
No scientist knows the world merely by holding it at arm's length: if we ever managed to build the objectivist wall between the knower and… — Parker J. Palmer
Most of us encounter a great deal more Mystery than we are willing to experience. Sometimes knowing life requires us to suspend disbelief, to recognize… — Rachel Naomi Remen
Real faith means holding ourselves open to the unconditional mystery which we encounter in every sphere of our life and which cannot be comprised in… — Martin Buber
I honor the wisdom of life. I learn from life in all its forms. The tree teaches me. The sparrow and the wren sing my… — Julia Cameron
To exist without purpose is to be at the mercy of the chance encounter, the chance invitation, the chance phone call, the chance event- always… — Nathaniel Branden
When a child encounters something he or she does not want, that child has all kinds of maneuvers to avoid it, such as crying, hiding,… — Tarthang Tulku
Every experience is an opportunity to encounter the Divine. — Susan W. Krebs
When we learn to smile at life, we shall find that the problems we encounter dissolve. — Donald Curtis
I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter… — Lionel Blue
A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it… — Robert Emmet
I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day. — Dave Eggers
Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization… — Gael Garcia Bernal

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