We Encounter Quotes
79 We Encounter quotes by 63 unique authors
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And so we polish our own lives, creating landscapes and canyons and peaks with the very silt we try to avoid, the dirt we disavow…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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But over the years, I've learned not to believe too much in luck or accidents; T think everything happens for a reason. There's something to…
— Syd Field
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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
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When we learn to smile at life, we shall find that the problems we encounter dissolve.
— Donald Curtis
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I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.
— Dave Eggers
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What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.
— Stephan Jenkins
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Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives…
— Dalai Lama
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At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper…
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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We do not seek a Christ whom we have invented, for only in the real communion of the Church do we encounter the real Christ.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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When we smile, the muscles around our mouth are stretched and relaxed, just like doing yoga. Smiling is mouth yoga. We release the tension from…
— Nhat Hanh
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Mysterious spaces cause us to turn inward. Amid a rich upwelling of association, we encounter many aspects of ourselves. As we grow still, we come…
— John Paul Caponigro
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I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At…
— Ishmael Beah
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Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.
— Nhat Hanh
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
— Guy de Maupassant
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To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated, shredded,…
— Thomas S. Monson
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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
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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
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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
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