Encounters Quotes

743 Encounters quotes by 571 unique authors

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
After all, he did say you were the issue of an encounter between your father and a traeling hatcha-hatcha dancer." There was a gasp of… — John Flanagan
Every person you encounter, whom you interact with, is there to teach you something. Sometimes it may be years before you realize what each had… — Raymond E. Feist
You were overwhelmed by my desire? What planet are you from? (Geary to Arik) Moronia. Every full moon they teleport the Morons to earth and… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
No purpose intervenes between I and You, no greed and no anticipation; and longing itself is changed as it plunges from the dream into appearance.… — Martin Buber
To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss. — Elisabeth Elliot
Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand… — Christopher Hitchens
True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring â€” once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale… — Stephen King

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