Encounters Quotes - Page 23

• Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter.

  Jayne Anne Phillips

  Believe, Writing, Practice

  FaceBook post by Jayne Anne Phillips from Dec 04, 2011

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• Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.

  Eudora Welty

  Reading, Heart, Writing

  Eudora Welty (1962). “Three papers on fiction”

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• I had never thought about what it might mean to be deaf, to be deprived of language, or to have a remarkable language (and community and culture) of one’s own. Up to this point, I had mostly thought and written about the problems of individuals–here I was to encounter an entire community.

  Oliver Sacks

  Mean, Community, Culture

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• Every human encounter is the external embodiment of an attraction between two magnetic fields. The encounter comes suddenly, unexpectedly. It is a moment of truth. It is a moment of revelation, as when the right ray of sun penetrates through the right window pane, and falls with the right slant on one picture in the museum.

  Amalia Kahana-Carmon

  Fall, Window Panes, Two

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• If some confectioners were willing
  To let the shape announce the filling,
  We'd encounter fewer assorted chocs,
  Bitten into and returned to the box.

  Ogden Nash

  Chocolate, Shapes, Assorted

  Ogden Nash (1942). “Good intentions”, Little, Brown

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• THE FIRST STEP in changing the future is Desire, that is, define your objective - know definitely what you want. SECOND: construct an event which you believe you would encounter following the fulfillment of your desire - an event which implies fulfillment of your desire - something which will have the action of Self predominant.

  Neville Goddard

  Believe, Self, Desire

  Neville Goddard (2016). “The Neville Goddard Collection”, p.30, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Remember that you will derive strength by reflecting that the saints yearn for you to join their ranks; desire to see you fight bravely, and that you behave like true knights in your encounters with the same adversities which they had to conquer, and that breathtaking joy is theirs and your eternal reward for having endured a few years of temporal pain. Every drop of earthly bitterness will be changed into an ocean of heavenly sweetness.

  Henry Suso

  Pain, Ocean, Adversity

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• You may not realize it, but your life has the potential to bless everyone you encounter.

  Richard Blackaby

  Positive, May, Realizing

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• This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Quality, Body, Faults

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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 and then suddenly we recall that a friend had a certain comment on that particular story, a certain bit of news that we saw on the television applies to that and we immediately assemble an idea of a story.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Ideas, Breakfast, Tables

  "Five minutes with Mark Z Danielewski". Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2000.

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• Human kindness has no reward. You should give to others in every way you see. expect absolutely nothing from anyone. It should be your goal to love every human you encounter. All human suffering that you're aware of and continues without your effort to stop it becomes your crime.

  Louis C. K.

  Love, Inspirational, Kindness

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• Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it would appear as the regular or necessary derivative. Scientific progress consists in pushing further back this ultimately given.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Progress, Society, Research

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing anguish when one encounters the comic.

  Robert Motherwell

  Art, Sometimes, Forgotten

  Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”

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• Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.

  Alain de Botton

  Men, Dust, Sublime

  Alain de Botton (2003). “The Art of Travel”, p.89, Penguin UK

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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

  Real, Religion, Church

  Pope Benedict XVI (1996). “Called to Communion: Understanding the Church Today”, p.81, Ignatius Press

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• During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are forbidden, it is but natural to wish that they were at least allowable. Nothing can be more delightful, except it be to abandon them for virtue's sake.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Wish, Sake, Virtue

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• There is a time when every person who encounters Jesus, who believes Jesus is the Son of God, decides that they will spend their life following Him. Some people, like the Apostle Paul, make this decision the minute they meet Him, the minute they become a Christian. Others, like the Apostle Peter, endure years of half-hearted commitment and spiritual confusion before leaping in with all their passion. Still others may enjoy some benefits of God's love and grace without entering into the true joy of a marriage with their maker.

  Donald Miller

  Christian, Spiritual, Jesus

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.60, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When you encounter sophistication in the creation of a female character, you thank the writers and you claim it.

  Vera Farmiga

  Character, Female, Creation

  "Freddie Highmore, Vera Farmiga, and Producers Carlton Cuse and Kerry Ehrin Talk BATES MOTEL at Paley Center Panel". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 15, 2013.

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• I always thought that Seth [Rogen] was a fun, caustic, bombastic, sweet, underdog-type of person that I would root for the way you used to root for Bill Murray or John Candy in "Stripes." Seth had something that very few people you encounter have: he had a writer's mind and he had his own comic point of view.

  Judd Apatow

  Sweet, Fun, Views

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Most people don't relate to and can't generate concern for something they don't encounter personally or feel personally affected by. People have to have the palpable negatives in their lives dissected for them in ways that let them understand the root causes of unhealthy, unhappy conditions in their lives and then be allowed to really see and feel the positive alternatives.

  Edward Norton

  Roots, People, Unhappy

  "Dialogues on the Environment: Q&A With Edward Norton". Interview with Mark Tercek, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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• Think about how rare it is for anyone to encounter a teacher who can open you up to the notion that there is an infinite amount of meaning and possibility and inspiration in the smallest thing before you.

  Greil Marcus

  Teacher, Inspiration, Thinking

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• We sleep, allowing gravity to hold us, allowing Earth - our larger body - to recalibrate our neurons, composting the keen encounters of our waking hours , stirring them back, as dreams, into the sleeping substance of our muscles.

  David Abram

  Dream, Sleep, Substance

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• Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter.

  Hadewijch

  Grieving, Fervent

  Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.93, Paulist Press

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• Solitude is a courageous encounter with our naked, most raw and real self, in the presence of pure love.

  Richard Rohr

  Real, Self, Solitude

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• Take risks! That is really what life is about. We must pursue our own happiness. Nobody has ever lived our lives; ther are no guidelines. Trust your instincts. Accept nothing but the best. But then also look for it carefully. Don't allow it to slip between your fingers. Sometimes, good things come to us in a such a quiet fashion. And nothing comes complete. It is what we make of whatever we encounter that determines the outcome. What we choose to see, what we choose to save. And what we choose to remember. Never foget that all the love in your life is there, inside you, always.

  Linda Olsson

  Fashion, Risk, Looks

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