Encounters Quotes

743 Encounters quotes by 571 unique authors

But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my"… — Alan Watts
I knew that the world around you is only uninteresting if you can't see what is really going on. The place you come from is… — David Malouf
We treat our encounters with them with carefree casualness. We are certain that our relationships will naturally take care of themselves. — Leo Buscaglia
We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror. — Peter HÃ¸eg
The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body. — Thomas Moore
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or… — Stendhal
All actual life is encounter. — Martin Buber
Yes, I thought I'd try electrocution next. Since a bomb, a fire, Vinco's knife and a brief encounter with outer space didn't kill me. — Maria V. Snyder
It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are… — Miguel de Cervantes
In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion,'" she repeats, making sure of it. If she had paper and pencil, it wouldn't surprise me if she… — Haruki Murakami
Everyone knows how to love,because we are all born with that gift.Some people have a natural talent for it but the majority of us have… — Paulo Coelho
There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force… — Mother Teresa
Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. The journey may take many lifetimes, but you will… — Gary Zukav
At their best, religious and spiritual communities help us discover this pure and naked spiritual encounter. At their worst, they simply make us more ashamed,… — Brian D. McLaren
You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness,… — Shaun Tan
Dachshunds have their own agenda and can be stubborn about seeing their plans through to completion. What Rosie lacked in consistency, she made up for… — Mary Doria Russell
Open yourself to an encounter with heaven, be as a little child. Release your desire to the winds of the universe. Trust your angels to… — Doreen Virtue
If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to… — Simon Pegg
If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard… — Jonathan Safran Foer
The observations and encounters of a devotee of solitude and silence are at once less distinct and more penetrating than those of the sociable man;… — Thomas Mann
It is so strange, to encounter an ex. It's as if you're in a foreign film, and what you're saying face-to-face has nothing to do… — Jodi Picoult
I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less of the government. There are useless… — Jose Rizal
Any closer would unravel her mystery, the very thing which made her so truly beautiful...It was her mystery that he adored. He was in love… — Ben Elton
Because of the routines we follow, we often forget that life is an ongoing adventure. . . Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we… — Maya Angelou
An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way… — Iain Banks

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