Encounters Quotes - Page 3

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

Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.

Success is usually earned by persevering and not becoming discouraged when we encounter challenges.

If on your journey you should encounter GOD, GOD will be cut

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

The conditions of a true critique and a true creation are the same: the destruction of an image of thought which presupposes itself and the genesis of the act of thinking in thought itself. Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter

Real elegance is simply a true encounter with oneself.

Paranormal events are just edges of the infinite we 'happen' to encounter.

Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei, and she guessed it was the Pendulum's business. A moment later the couple went off -- he, trained on some textbook that had blunted his capacity for wonder, she, inert and insensitive to the thrill of the infinite, both oblivious of the awesomeness of their encounter -- their first and last encounter -- with the One, the Ein-Sof, the Ineffable. How could you fail to kneel down before this altar of certitude?

Oh yes, I dated Orson Welles. We had many encounters on both coasts. I remember the first time he saw me in a boudoir, in a negligee, he said in that wondrous voice of his, ‘Magnificent Carcass.’ ‘MAGNIFICENT CARCASS?’ I thought to myself. Whatever, I didn't see that one coming. But that's really all I want to say about Orson. I don't want to go into how he gave me the Clap.

If you never encounter anything in your community that offends you, then you are not living in a free society.

No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.

Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else.

The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.

Girls were nice to me in the same way that they would be nice to a hamster. I fantasized about wild encounters with females but knew they'd never happen unless my own involvement could somehow go undetected.

In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.

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.

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'

Doesn't every encounter with God only cause us to thirst for Him more?

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.

If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms.

Always observe your opponent carefully. You need to use the first seconds of every encounter to evaluate the length of their blade, the length of their arms, etc.

I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity.