"Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan."
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"If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms."
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"No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger."
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"We owe the world an encounter with God"
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"I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace."
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"In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality."
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"I may be mistaken but it seems to me that a man may be judged by his laugh, and that if at first encounter you like the laugh of a person completely unknown to you, you may say with assurance that he is good."
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"We cannot abandon this rabbit hole for fear of a traumatic encounter with our own culture."
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"Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds."
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"If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy."
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"A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem."
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"There is nothing good that does not meet with opposition, and it should not be valued any less because it encounters objections."
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"Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it's a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that's really chewing on us."
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"Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole, both inwardly and outwardly."
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"Just breathing and smiling can make us very happy, because when we breathe consciously we recover ourselves completely and encounter life in the present moment."
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"We are not trying to solve the world's problems... However, even in the midst of hatred and killing, there are things worth living for. A wonderful encounter, or a thing of beauty can still exist."
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"All actual life is encounter."
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"There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the pain we encounter."
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"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar."
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"Too often, we decide to follow a path that is not really our own, one that others have set for us. We forget that...in both cases we will pass through both difficult and happy moments. But when we are living our dream, the difficulties we encounter make sense."
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