Everyone We Meet Quotes

#1. Meditation is really quite simple. All we have to do is embrace each experience with awareness and open our hearts fully to the present moment. When we are completely at ease with our own being, the ripples of awareness naturally spread out in all directions, touching the lives of everyone we meet.

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

#2. When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.

Jack Kornfield

#3. Everyone we meet will either be our crucifier or our savior, depending on what we choose to be to them.

Marianne Williamson

#4. The Pharisees lacked - and what we Christians have all too often lacked - is grace. We must never let our theological disagreements get in the way of showing God's unconditional, overpowering grace to everyone we meet.

Justin Lee

#5. If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.

Martin Delany

#6. She believes that everyone we meet influences us, that we need to hear their stories to learn more about ourselves.

Gemma Liviero

#7. Why does finding out someone has pain in their life make you appreciate them more as a human being? Shouldn't we all assume everyone we meet has their own pain?

Dalya Moon

#8. The sooner we accept the inevitable dilemma of not being able to win the approval of everyone we meet, the easier our lives will become.

Richard Carlson

#9. Let us be loving, caring, and kind to everyone we meet in this beautiful journey called life. At the end nothing else matters.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Unless we practice
loving feelings toward
everyone we meet, day in,
day out, we're missing out
on the most joyous part of
life. If we can actually open
our hearts, there's no
difficulty in being happy.

Ayya Khema

#11. Let's go tell everyone we meet that, when the American dream is at stake, you want Barack Obama in charge.

Deval Patrick

#12. We are all a unique person with everyone we meet.

Joel Kinnaman

#13. I started to think about the assumptions we make that everyone we meet operates under the same moral code, and how betrayed we feel when that isn't the case.

Jane Green

#14. Everyone we meet is a hero waiting to happen. When Jesus saw people, He envisioned their potential. No respecter of persons, He associated with people from all walks of life.

David Jeremiah

#15. Plato said, be kind to everyone you meet for we are all fighting difficult battles.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#16. There's a saying I read recently; I painted it on the fireplace and in my studio: "Be kind to everyone you meet, for everyone is fighting a great battle." We all are. Everyone.

Gloria Vanderbilt

#17. Everyone you meet in your life - even total strangers - are already intimately connected to you. The idea that we are all separate and distinct beings is nothing but an illusion. We are all parts of a larger whole, like individual cells in a body.

Steve Pavlina

#18. When we meet Christ and get on the right side of the cross, our goal isn't to get everyone to think we're perfect and have it all together. Rather, this is where we recognize how much we need Jesus and learn to fall more in love with Him every single day.

Perry Noble

#19. Now she knew where to find me, if it was written that we would meet again, we would. The important thing is to allow fate to intervene in our lives and to decide what is best for everyone.

Paulo Coelho

#20. We'll meet you here. Hopefully everyone will be in human form." A wry smile. "Though I'll warn you, he's not a whole lot more pleasant that way. At least as a wolf, he can't talk.

Kelley Armstrong

#21. My goal in the new administration is to engage all of the stakeholders, everyone who can help us meet the challenges of the 21st century, and ensure that we work together.

Valerie Jarrett

#22. As Plato said, Be kind to everyone you meet, for we are all fighting a fierce battle.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#23. Shame forces us to put so much value on what other people think that we lose ourselves in the process of trying to meet everyone else's expectations. Shame:

Brene Brown

#24. Be gentle with everyone you meet; we all have experienced pain, hurt, anger, and rejection. Be kind to everyone's spirit; you have no idea what healing your light can afford.

Grace Gealey

#25. Our greatest battles lie deep within our own psyches as we face fear, insecurity, and self-doubt. These internal adversaries pose a far greater threat to our lives and our well-being than the external difficulties of daily life. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Plato

Dan Millman

#26. I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we think, feel, and see before we die. Writing is a path to meet ourselves and become intimate.

Natalie Goldberg

#27. I speak for everyone here today," he tells us, "when I say that you two - Lily and Loren - are the strongest people we've all ever had the honor to meet.

Krista Ritchie

#28. If the directions say to do it, we do it," said Maggie. "That's what everyone says. If you don't listen to the Monkey, he doesn't meet with you."
"Let's hope the directions don't tell us to shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die," I muttered, and pulled out onto the street.

Mira Grant

#29. The ministry of the church is a genuine concern for others. We need to stop talking about it and start doing it. Rise.
Rise and shine, friend. Everyone you meet today is on heaven's Most Wanted list.

Charles R. Swindoll

#30. When we see all women as the divine mother and all men as the divine father, everyone you meet is sacred.

Stephen Levine

#31. We can never know the impact a simple smile has on another. Smiling is one of the easiest things we can do. Is there a simpler, more effortless way to give everyone you meet a moment of joy, even a sense of worth?

Steve Goodier

#32. We put so much of our time and energy into making sure that we meet everyone's expectations and into caring about what other people think of us, that we are often left feeling angry, resentful and fearful.

Brene Brown

#33. When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#34. If I were to meet the slave-traders who kidnapped me and even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their hands, for if that did not happen, I would not be a Christian and Religious today ... The Lord has loved me so much: we must love everyone ... we must be compassionate!

Josephine Bakhita

#35. The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.

Carly Fiorina

#36. We travel so far only to land where we are. We imagine other lives, only to meet who we are. We seek out love in special ways, only to find everyone is special. Humbly, we can't avoid this journey ...

Mark Nepo

#37. the world has stopped. Not just my world, but the world of everyone around me. When we meet with friends, we always talk about the same things and the same people. The conversations seem new, but it's all just a waste of time and energy. We're trying to prove that life is still interesting.

Paulo Coelho

#38. The one thing I learned in my youth as a grave robber was that everyone looks the same when they're dead. We're all equal then. So when I meet a chap, sitting on his high horse, I imagine him dead. He's not quite so intimidating then.

Lorraine Heath

#39. Inside is where we meet everyone else; it's on the outside that we are truly alone.

Charles Simic