Encounters quotes
466 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome."
"How one encounters reality is a choice."
"When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time."
"The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms."
"Chance encounters are what keep us going."
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"It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living."
"Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy of dialogue among human beings."
"I cannot live in mediocrity, content with merely knowing that there is more of God to experience and explore -and then do nothing about it. Truths that are not experienced are, in effect, more like theories than truths. Whenever God reveals truth to us He is inviting us into a divine encounter."
"Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often, in the beginning, you will think that you are wasting time, but you must go on, be determined and persevere in it until death, despite all the difficulties."
"Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to encounter either one."
"It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering."
"The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, 'Here's my chance to grow.'"
"In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given."
"God is a wild man...should you encounter him...hang on for dear life-or let go for dear life is a better way to say it."
"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat, so that we can know who we are."
"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."
"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?"
"True encounter with Christ liberates something in us, a power we did not know we had, a hope, a capacity for life, a resilience, an ability to bounce back when we thought we were completely defeated, a capacity to grow and change, a power of creative transformation."
"If you never encounter anything in your community that offends you, then you are not living in a free society."
"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."
"No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger."
"We owe the world an encounter with God"
"I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace."
