Encounters Quotes - Page 38

• J.R. Angelella is a truly gifted writer. Zombie is one of the smartest, strangest, and most beautifully crafted coming-of-age stories you will ever encounter.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Gifted Writers, Zombie, Age

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• His voice was an omnipresent cry in our electronic world. His sharp features, majestic looks, and prancing style a vivid etching on the landscape of our minds. Bob Marley was never seen. He was an experience which left an indelible imprint with each encounter. Such a man cannot be erased from the mind. He is part of the collective consciousness of the nation.

  Edward Seaga

  Men, Voice, Style

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• When we encounter an unexpected challenge of threat the only way to save ourselves is to hold on tight to the people around us and not let go.

  Shawn Achor

  Letting Go, People, Challenges

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• As we explore the nature of our gift, our goal is to move toward this kind of giving: cheerful giving that flows gently and easily, kingly giving that flows surely from who we are. As we encounter the questions—Who are we ? What do we love ?—the gift we bring will be easy, because our gift naturally emerges from who we are. The offering we bring is ourselves, just as we are. Our gift is our true nature. There can be no greater gift than this.

  Wayne Muller

  Moving, Offering, Giving

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• Effective leaders allow God to shape them into the kind of people they need to be for each situation they encounter.

  Jim George

  People, Leader, Needs

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• When things go wrong in our life and we encounter difficult situations, we tend to regard the situation itself as our problem, but in reality whatever problems we experience come from the side of the mind. If we were to respond to difficult situations with a positive or peaceful mind they would not be problems for us; indeed, we may even come to regard them as challenges or opportunities for growth and development. Problems arise only if we respond to difficulties with a negative state of mind. Therefore, if we want to be free from problems, we must transform our mind.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Positive, Buddhist, Attitude

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra”, p.5, Tharpa Publications US

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• No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Enemy, Firsts, Plans

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• All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.

  Maya Angelou

  Grace, Survival, May

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• The Internet offers immense possibilities for encounter and solidarity. This is something truly good, a gift from God.

  Pope Francis

  Internet, Possibility, Solidarity

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• Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of reason, every act of consciousness, every encounter with the world around us.

  David Bentley Hart

  World, Employment, Consciousness

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• REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter

  Ambrose Bierce

  Reflection, Views, Yesterday

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.195, University of Georgia Press

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• There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.

  Mother Teresa

  Powerful, Healing, Light

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• During youth a blossoming and budding forth tries to happen from inside out as each young person encounters what is seeded in them and gifted in their soul.

  Michael Meade

  Soul, Trying, Blossoming

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• Wherever I go, and whoever I encounter, I will bring them a gift. The gift may be a compliment, a flower, or a prayer. Today, I will give something to everyone I come into contact with, and so I will begin the process of circulating joy, wealth and affluence in my life and in the lives of others.

  Deepak Chopra

  Prayer, Flower, Giving

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.28, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal, and much-falsified history that here, in her brilliantly imagined fiction, is rewritten to give us something that feels very like the truth.

  Salman Rushdie

  Native American, Giving, Fiction

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• As we lose our vagueness about ourself, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in the particular, that we contact the creative self. Art lies in the moment of encounter: we meet our truth and we meet ourselves; we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression .

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Lying, Self

  Julia Cameron (2001). “Inspirations: Meditations from The Artist's Way”, p.31, Penguin

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• The secret principle of martial arts is not vanquishing the attacker, but resolving to avoid an encounter before its occurrence. To become an object of an attack is an indication that there was an opening in one's guard, and the important thing is to be on guard at all times.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Art, Secret, Important

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• Faith is above all a personal, intimate encounter with Jesus, and to experience [His] closeness, [His] friendship, [His] Love; only in this way does one learn to know [Him] ever more, and to love and follow [Him] ever more. May this happen to each one of us.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Jesus, Doe, May

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• When we trust our creativity we encounter a supreme kind of enjoyment - an amazement at the natural unfolding of life beyond our ordinary way of looking at things.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Creativity, Ordinary, Way

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• When we encounter suffering, it is important to respond w/ compassion rather than to question the politics of those we help.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Suffering, Important

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• The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, World, Life Is

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “Ethics”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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• Businesses always have opportunities to improve service, product lines, manufacturing techniques, and the like, and obviously these opportunities should be seized. But a business that constantly encounters major change also encounters many chances for major error

  Warren Buffett

  Opportunity, Errors, Technique

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.115, John Wiley & Sons

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• Your practice should be strengthened by the difficult situations you encounter, just as a bonfire in a strong wind is not blown out, but blazes even brighter.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Strong, Difficult Situations, Wind

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• Christianity was never meant to be a belief system, it’s meant to be an encounter with a person.

  Mike Donehey

  Belief, Christianity, Persons

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• Your job, your invitation from the Universe, is to give people back to themselves. You can do this every day, in a hundred ways. All you have to do is look for the best in that person, and then show it to them, right then and there. Describe it. Admire it. Thank them for it. Why not practice it with the first three people you encounter after reading this?

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Jobs, Reading, Practice

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Nov 20, 2016

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