Top 100 Life Encounter Quotes
#1. Your life, your achievement, your happiness, your person are of paramount importance. Live up to your highest vision of yourself no matter what the circumstances you might encounter. An exalted view of self-esteem is a man's most admirable quality.
Ayn Rand
#2. There would be consequences to this weekend, I knew that now and I wasn't lying to myself anymore. But maybe they wouldn't all be negative. Maybe I would walk away a better person because of my encounter with this man. Yes, it sure was, life was wild.
Mia Sheridan
#3. What I do with everything is take things out of real life. You encounter all sorts of stories. It's a lot of your friends and family, sometimes there's quite sad episodes in their life and everything. So just little things I've picked up along the years always find a way into all of my stories.
Mark Millar
#4. As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say.
Antonio Banderas
#5. Whenever we encounter a human being in such a way that we feel absolutely certain of the infinity of that person's worth and the eternity of his or her life, that is Easter.
Eugen Drewermann
#6. Being able to live my life transparently does empower me to feel like I can be myself more. It's easier for me to flirt with girls now that girls know that I'm gay. It almost makes it a sexier encounter than if I was trying to pretend that I was straight.
Neil Patrick Harris
#7. An archer, the moment he thinks he's experienced, is lost; every lion we encounter in our brief life is different from every other lion; woe to us if we stop to make comparisons, to deduce our movements from norms and premises.
Italo Calvino
#8. You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated
Ayn Rand
#9. Two of the hardest decisions in life: the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage to accept whatever you encounter.
Paulo Coelho
#10. Happiness is not something to be pursued, it is something met, an encounter. Most encounters, however, have a sequel; this is their promise. The encounter with happiness has no sequel. All is there instantly. Happiness is what pierces grief.
John Berger
#11. Smiling can lift one's spirits, and moreover, make a difference in each life you encounter.
Asa Don Brown
#12. Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
James Joyce
#13. A moment's encounter can decide the direction of one's entire life
Daisaku Ikeda
#14. You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses to accept more faces, more expressions: on every new face you encounter, it prints the old forms, for each one it finds the most suitable mask.
Italo Calvino
#15. What happens and what you encounter, what you collide with - it's so exciting and revealing about how much more interesting and tricky the universe is than we think in our daily lives.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#16. There are great lessons to be learn't in every trail. Look for the gold in every encounter.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#17. All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence.
Benjamin Disraeli
#18. The road to anywhere is the road to nowhere, and the road to nowhere leads to dreams sacrificed, opportunities squandered, and a life unfulfilled. In our journey we will encounter forks and turnings in the road.
Thomas S. Monson
#19. You'll always meet someone new, encounter something odd. That's the peculiar thing about life. Everything will make sense after it happens in the end. Everything will be clear, fresh, as if looking through glass. Crazy, isn't it?
Serena Winter
#20. Though it is not the most enjoyable experience in the world, hardship is a very good teacher. When you encounter it, you cannot help but to listen to it. It speaks with power.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#22. 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.
Nhat Hanh
#23. We simply can't abandon ship every time we encounter a storm in our marriage. Real love is about weathering the storms of life together.
Seth Adam Smith
#24. Unless we encounter God, speculating about God becomes nothing more than abstract conjecture and theorizing that has little impact on daily life.
N Graham Standish
#25. It was incomprehensible that her entire life had been a carousel of unhappiness, drinking, failed promises, and loneliness, all turning around and around a single afternoon encounter with this man.
Joe Hill
#26. It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are.
Alain De Botton
#28. He was another person, despite his firm decision and anguished effort to continue to be the same man he had been before his mortal encounter with love.
The truth is that he was never the same again. Winning back Fermina Daza was the sole purpose of his life
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#29. My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.
Yanis Varoufakis
#30. Wherever I go, and whoever I encounter, I will bring them a gift. The gift may be a compliment, a flower, or a prayer. Today, I will give something to everyone I come into contact with, and so I will begin the process of circulating joy, wealth and affluence in my life and in the lives of others.
Deepak Chopra
#32. You can encounter the great life within you when you recover the zero point. When you encounter that great life, all limits created by the thoughts and emotions vanish and infinite creativity springs forth.
Ilchi Lee
#33. When we learn to smile at life, we shall find that the problems we encounter dissolve.
Donald Curtis
#34. No drugs here, no manipulation of neurotransmitters that leaves our worldly problems unattended. And no talking cures because explicit insight is not needed. All that is required is courage: the courage to encounter discomfort and stay with it long enough to be changed by it, strengthened.
Jason Dias
#35. In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.
Brennan Manning
#36. Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#37. The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.
Paulo Coelho
#38. Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.
Oprah Winfrey
#39. Every day in life, people we will likely never encounter a second time, pass us by. For some unknown reason, I just couldn't accept that he was one of them.
Penelope Ward
#40. You may not realize it, but your life has the potential to bless everyone you encounter.
Richard Blackaby
#41. When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present - our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love - everything that moves us most deeply.
Jack Kornfield
#42. Swallowing your pride isn't lethal. It might upset your stomach for a few minutes, but the ultimate result may be the life of your dreams. And that's a result that's worth every rejection you encounter.
Georgette Mosbacher
#43. If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?
Jonathan Safran Foer
#44. Each new epoch in life seems an encounter. There is a tussle and a cloud of dust, and we come out of it triumphant or crest-fallen, according as we have borne ourselves.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#45. There's no higher dream than experiencing God as He moves through every circumstance of life to an eternal encounter with Himself where transformed people will enjoy perfectly loving community around Jesus Christ, the source of Perfect Love.
Larry Crabb
#46. Our lives are a novel being written. We are its author. Every action we encounter and every person we meet has a role and a place in our ultimate story. It is in our control to decide the level of how, who and what impacts us and how large a role we decide to assign each.
Mark W. Boyer
#47. 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.
Rich Mullins
#48. Every challenge you encounter in life is a fork in the road. You have the choice to choose which way to go - backward, forward, breakdown or breakthrough.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#49. Sometimes we can't enjoy the bloom of a rose because we're too busy crying over being pricked by the thorn.
Suzannah Daniels
#50. When it comes to love, your point of view, your imagination and your energy can carry you through anything. As you love, it will spill over to everyone and everything you encounter and beyond. There is no force imaginable that is more powerful than the act of love.
Julieanne O'Connor
#51. If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest.
Shannon L. Alder
#52. How on earth do people imagine we equip children for life if we never show them the sorts of issues other people encounter, if we never talk through with them how they might deal with difficulty or violence or unexpected shocks and surprises?
Margo Lanagan
#53. There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life, every crumb of success, each encounter of love ... In a figurative way, Yiddish is the wise and humble language of us all, the idiom of a frightened and hopeful humanity.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#54. One doesn't begin to be a Christian because of an ethical decision or a great idea, but rather because of an encounter with an event, with a Person, who gives new horizons to life, and with that, a decisive orientation.
Pope Benedict XVI
#55. I began to encounter real-life stories of dogs protecting their wounded or dying or dead handler ... or dogs refusing to leave the bodies of the people they were bonded to, sitting in cemeteries for days or sometimes weeks. You find these stories endlessly.
Robert Crais
#56. In life we encounter many people who, in some way or another, try to tattoo our faces.
Dan Ariely
#57. Find your own rhythm, and confidently go with that rhythm. When you become one with the rhythm and flow of your own life, you will encounter the rhythm of the universe that bestows harmony and order upon all things: the pulse of the cosmos, Yullyeo.
Ilchi Lee
#58. If you are hurt, whether in mind or body, don't nurse your bruises. Get up and light-heartedly, courageously, good temperedly get ready for the next encounter. This is the only way to take life - this is also 'playing' the game!
Emily Post
#59. Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction.
Pope Francis
#61. Something that was instilled in me by my parents at a very young age is that there is no happy life without a life of service. Over the course of my career, I've been fortunate to always encounter others who share that philosophy.
Keke Palmer
#62. A person who cultivates any interest in self-improvement will necessary encounter successes and failures, both of which life lessons can be useful to remember when seeking distant mileposts. Failure stimulates evaluation and new learning. Success stimulates development and retention of good habits.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#63. An encounter with generosity can remind us that life always overflows our attempts to reduce it to a commodity or a transaction - because it is a gift.
Makoto Fuijmura
#64. The rainy days in life are what make us treasure the sunny days.
Suzannah Daniels
#65. Life is rather like a long train ride; you may encounter a great many people, but looking out from your own small compartment of self you catch only a glimpse of other people's joy or despair.
Faith Baldwin
#66. Your words contain great power. So declare that you will prosper despite every difficulty that you may encounter in your life. You are not here just to survive ... So overcome and thrive!
Timothy Pina
#67. Life is a mystery, and there is nothing to explain everything is just open, it is in front of you. Encounter it! Meet it! Be courageous!
Rajneesh
#68. Every encounter we experience in life comes to teach us something.
Euginia Herlihy
#69. Think of every contact a customer has with your brand as the most important encounter of your life.
Dane Brookes
#70. Man cannot live without love. He remains a being that is incomprehensible for himself, his life is senseless, if love is not revealed to him, if he does not encounter love, if he does not experience it and make it his own, if he does not participate intimately in it.
Pope John Paul II
#71. My greatest desire is that you would encounter His presence; and everything about your life would be different.
Karen Wheaton
#72. We cannot keep to ourselves the words of eternal life given to us in our encounter with Jesus Christ: they are meant for everyone, for every man and woman ... It is our responsibility to pass on what, by God's grace, we ourselves have received.
Pope Benedict XVI
#73. If there is so much blessing and joy even in a single encounter of brother with brother, how inexhaustible are the riches that open up for those who by God's will are privileged to live in the daily fellowship of life with other Christians!
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#74. When you've had a near-death experience, your life is never the same. A divine fire is supernaturally transferred into your soul, to tell everyone about your encounter. This in itself, is a miracle. As such, I am on a mission to rid hell of its future recruits.
Josephine Akhagbeme
#75. There's really not much in life that's as violent or traumatic as an encounter with somebody who really surprises you and opens up that strange dynamic that's involved in romantic love.
John Maus
#76. Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life.
Michael Sandel
#77. When your life has had few events to occupy it, it's amazing how a simple encounter can seem like an entire three-act play.
Mary E. Pearson
#78. The emotional stuff is the biggest challenge, for me to access that. As life passes, you encounter difficulties and tragedies, and so it becomes easier. 'Carnivale' required that of me, and it was really hard.
Carla Gallo
#79. The healing power lies in the encounter with sensitive people; it makes life worth living.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#80. Once in awhile, you do encounter bad acquaintance, mean people, toxic aura. Don't let them rent space in your heart and mind. Don't let anyone make you so upset that you become someone you don't even recognise.
Rita Zahara
#81. I think that whatever we encounter in life, we want to encourage a balance between the mind and the soul ... and that is to consider about 50% data from the mind and 50% data from the soul. This is what Buddhists call, "the middle way."
Neale Donald Walsch
#82. In life, we will always encounter difficult people. Don't allow them to frustrate you or steal your joy.
Victoria Osteen
#83. But then, with whatever time she had left, until life was taken from her, Neema would touch more pages; she would encounter there more of those far-flung sisters; she would listen to them whisper the unuttered words of her heart.
Masha Hamilton
#84. A city lay out there, that I had barely observed or cared about. I wanted it - life, people. I wanted to see it, feel its rush through my blood. No boundaries, no limits to what I might encounter or do.
Sarah J. Maas
#85. Take a look at anyone's life. Take a look at your own. In the long fold catastrophe that makes up your three-score years and ten you will encounter many cusp catastrophes along the way.
William Boyd
#86. Should you ever be so lucky as to encounter an author in your life, you should shower her or him with gifts and praise. Sir
Jonathan Auxier
#88. True heroes and ideas never fall in the final sense of the word. They can only encounter temporary setbacks in their difficult journey to progress and success,
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#89. You reach a point in life where you realize that you might as well do what you need to do, because your being loved or not being loved is really a function of the people you encounter and not of yourself. That is an immensely liberating insight.
Erica Jong
#90. But it is obvious that absurdism hereby admits that human life is the only necessary good since it is precisely life that makes this encounter possible and since, without life, the absurdist wager would have no basis. To say that life is absurd, the conscience must be alive.
Albert Camus
#91. My first encounter with James was when I was seventeen. My brother brought home from the public library a science fiction anthology, which included 'The Beast in the Jungle.' It swept me away. I had a strange, somewhat uncanny feeling that it was the story of my life.
Cynthia Ozick
#92. You will encounter disappointments in your ministry, in yourself, and even in God Himself but remember that all these are intrigues of the devil
Sunday Adelaja
#93. The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#94. I am humanly unable to correct my negative self-image until I encounter a life-changing experience with non-judgmental love bestowed upon me by a Person whom I admire so much that to be unconditionally accepted by Him is to be born again.
Robert H. Schuller
#95. It was an unexpected encounter that slowly altered the course of my life.
Patti Smith
#96. In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way.
Dag Hammarskjold
#97. Climbing Jacob's Ladder is a gutsy, glowing account of one man's encounter with a potent spiritual practice and how it transformed his life. This is a precious book - that rare combination of solid wisdom and good literature.
Larry Dossey
#98. Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which
Arthur Koestler
#99. It is not what happens to you in life that makes the difference. It is how you react to each circumstance you encounter that determines the result. Every human being in the same situation has the possibilities of choosing how he will react - either positively or negatively.
Earl Nightingale
#100. It's my fond hope that social networks such as Facebook will help users broaden their perspectives by listening to a different set of people than they encounter in their daily life. But I fear services such as Facebook may be turning us into imaginary cosmopolitans.
Ethan Zuckerman
