Quotes of: Encounter Keyword

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

Albert Schweitzer

In the old days, before I was married, or knew a lot of women, I would just pull down all the shades and go to bed for three or four days. I'd get up to shit. I'd eat a can of beans, go back to bed, just stay there for three or four days. Then I'd pu...

Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self. Jesus himself entered into this furnace. There he was tempted with the three compulsions of ...

The Way of the Heart: Desert Spirituality and Contemporary Ministry

...She expected people to accept her for who she was. But she never really accepted herself.

Close Encounters

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 encounter in passing the frontiers.

Candide

Be responsible. Your abilities ensure that you respond to the responsibilities that you encounter daily.

Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

...sometimes we can’t enjoy the bloom of a rose because we’re too busy crying over being pricked by the thorn.

Ghostly Encounter

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

Herman Hesse

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

Gustave Courbet

And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant.

The Alchemist

I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetuated fraud against himself.

To Kill a Mockingbird

It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.

The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction

Of all silences I had encountered this was the gravest and most inevitable: not the silence of secrets, but of knowing.

Memory of Water

The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail.

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.

The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction

Watch out, every day miraculous encounter with you and God!

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

You are not permitted to live and die as a non-entity because you have encountered the greatness that is associated with Christ.

The Prince and the Pauper

When a faith stubbornly maintained comes into contact with learning, the product of that encounter is always something magnificent, whether it be for good or ill.

Q

Women enjoy sex as much as men...if they were totally satisfied in sexual encounters, they would welcome them.

A Woman's Pleasure

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' ends with the spaceship lands and Richard Dreyfuss' character best on, but a bunch of pilots and sailors from the 1940s get off. You kind of wanted to know what happened next.

Jonathan Nolan

Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist.

Hayao Miyazaki