Encounters Quotes - Page 32

• Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, War, Believe

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I imagine our first glimpse of Heaven will cause us to gasp in amazement and delight. That first gasp will likely be followed by many more as we continually encounter new sights in that endlessly wonderful place.

  Randy Alcorn

  Inspirational, Life, Sight

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Heaven”, p.17, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter.

  W. C. Fields

  Beer, Devil, Firsts

  78 Copy quote

• Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.

  Epictetus

  Character, Pay The Price, Volunteer

  8 Copy quote

• The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to me to know how many steps are necessary in order to reach my goal. Failure I may still encounter at the thousandth step, yet success hides behind the next bend in the road. Never will I know how close it lies unless I turn the corner.

  Og Mandino

  Lying, Journey, Greatness

  Og Mandino (2009). “The Greatest Secret in the World”, p.38, Bantam

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• I would say you might encounter many defeats but you must never be defeated, ever. In fact, it might even be necessary to confront defeat. It might be necessary, to get over it, all the way through it, and go on. I would teach her to laugh a lot. Laugh a lot at the - and the silliest things and be very, very serious. I'd teach her to love life, I can bet you that.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Love Life, Thoughtful

  "Bill Moyers Journal", billmoyers.com. November 21, 1973.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain. It's a little frightening to think that every time you walk away from an encounter, your brain has been altered, sometimes permanently.

  George Johnson

  Book, Thinking, Brain

  45 Copy quote

• Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Character, Personality, Events

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.

  Cyril Connolly

  Dating, Suffering, Bees

  6 Copy quote

• What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.

  Leslie Caron

  Experience, Her Beauty, Actresses

  4 Copy quote

• Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do.

  Heraclitus

  People, Spirituality, Heed

  10 Copy quote

• Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.

  William Kristol

  Loyalty, Meaningful, Yuppies

  74 Copy quote

• According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous.

  Deepak Chopra

  Faith, Meaningful, Destiny

  "Stop Worrying, Start Living: A Guide for the Spiritual Worrier/Warrior". Book by Caroline Ravenall, 2012.

  119 Copy quote

  Show source

• Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.

  Rollo May

  Creativity, Understood

  "The Courage to Create".

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• If your everyday practice is open to all your emotions, to all the people you meet, to all the situations you encounter, without closing down, trusting that you can do that - then that will take you are far as you can go. And then you'll understand all the teachings that anyone has ever taught.

  Pema Chodron

  Love, Teaching, Practice

  9 Copy quote

• Death is not the end, but the beginning of a new life. Yes, it is an end of something that is already dead. It is also a crescendo of what we call life, although very few know what life is. They live, but they live in such ignorance that they never encounter their own life. And it is impossible for these people to know their own death, because death is the ultimate experience of this life, and the beginning experience of another. Death is the door between two lives; one is left behind, one is waiting ahead.

  Rajneesh

  Death, Ignorance, Two

  7 Copy quote

• I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect must always expect to encounter political hostility from those of adverse principles.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Character, Men, Giving

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.109

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• To be able to rise from the earth; to be able, from a station in outer space, to see the relationship of the planet earth to other planets; to be able to contemplate the billions of factors in precise and beautiful combination that make human existence possible; to be able to dwell on an encounter of the human brain and spirit with the universe

  Norman Cousins

  Beautiful, Space, Brain

  Norman Cousins (1991). “The Celebration of Life: A Dialogue on Hope, Spirit, and the Immortality of the Soul”, Bantam

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding up over a huge sequence of centuries. It is easy to picture to oneself the effects of this impact upon the Earth. The axis and the motion of rotation changed; the seas abandoning their old position to throw themselves toward the new equator; a large part of men and animals drowned in this universal deluge, or destroyed by the violent tremor imparted to the terrestrial globe.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Science, Animal, Men

  7 Copy quote

• There are more than 3500 military and commercial aircraft pilot reports of encounters worldwide; many cases have corroborating radar documentation and multiple witnesses both on the ground and in the air.

  Steven M. Greer

  Military, Air, Documentation

  10 Copy quote

• Russia and the U. S. have announced they are definitely planning several space machines. So it's quite possible that the first space ships or satellites may encounter other interplanetary machines, manned or otherwise. Our space devices may even be closely approached by such alien machines.

  Donald Keyhoe

  Russia, Space, Machines

  6 Copy quote

• Sometimes I have experienced God in extraordinary ways - in dramatic surprises or soul-expanding insights or unexplainable mystical encounters. More often, I have felt God's reality in the simple encouragement of a friend, in the gentle inspiration of a sermon, or in the familiar ritual of the Eucharist and I'd be less than honest if I didn't also say that at times, I've found myself in the spiritual doldrums, cast adrift, wondering if the wind would ever blow again.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Spiritual, Encouragement, Inspiration

  32 Copy quote

• Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every encounter as an opportunity to evaluate, coach, and build self-confidence.

  Jack Welch

  Team, Self Confidence, Opportunity

  15 Copy quote

• Whenever you study composition you inevitably encounter Bach right off the bat. You can't get across the room without running into him and the other greats. Analyzing Bach absolutely influenced my jazz playing.

  Howard Roberts

  Music, Running, Bats

  4 Copy quote

• We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Running, Darkness

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

  5 Copy quote

  Show source