Quotes About Love Encounters

#1. Encounter every situation with your total consciousness, without any guilt. Enjoy music, enjoy food, enjoy love - enjoy everything that is natural.

Rajneesh

#2. We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.

Sharon Salzberg

#3. I like playing that character who brings love to people, who puts people in a place where they're apt to encounter love.

Jane Fonda

#4. A woman has to demonstrate in every moment to be thirty times better than a man, to gain trust and to be considered. So, she has to be tenacious, combattative but not aggressive, she has to love her work a lot and not let herself be discouraged by the daily discriminiation she encounters.

Dacia Maraini

#5. Of all the fair resort of gentlemen
That every day with parle encounter me,
In thy opinion which is worthiest love?

William Shakespeare

#6. Love is an active construction, and choice, not just an encounter that happens by chance.

Masha Tupitsyn

#7. Since I stopped drinking my love life has taken a really serious hit. Romantic encounters that seemed like a really good idea at three o'clock in the morning on the Lower East Side? Less so in sobriety.

Moby

#8. I love to talk about people I've met being an entertainer. All my encounters in life - I roll it all into an hour and 30 minutes.

Chris Tucker

#9. I know that the Bible is a special kind of book, but I find it as seductive as any other. If I am not careful, I can begin to mistake the words on the page for the realities they describe. I can begin to love the dried ink marks on the page more than I love the encounters that gave rise to them.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#10. His father was an attorney in Paris. He met Sebastien's mother on a train to Amsterdam. There were no other seats. They were forced together and found they preferred it.

Simon Van Booy

#11. Real Love for ourselves by definition includes every aspect of our lives - the good, the bad, the difficult, the challenging past, the uncertain future, as well as all the shameful, upsetting experiences and encounters we'd just as soon forget.

Sharon Salzberg

#12. You are a creature of Divine Love connected at all times to Source. Divine Love is when you see God in everyone and everything you encounter.

Wayne Dyer

#13. Faith is above all a personal, intimate encounter with Jesus, and to experience [His] closeness, [His] friendship, [His] Love; only in this way does one learn to know [Him] ever more, and to love and follow [Him] ever more. May this happen to each one of us.

Pope Benedict XVI

#14. I'm sure a handful of people can relate to that experience of having some kind of romantic encounter - the event of love - which they just can't shake. They take it with them, despite their own desire, and it continually haunts them, and there's nothing to be done about it. That's a true rarity.

John Maus

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

Alain Badiou

#16. Compassion has more to do with the attitude we bring to our encounters with other people than with any quantifiable metric of giving.

Sharon Salzberg

#17. I am a geek in terms of, I love 'Close Encounters' and I love 'Star Wars,' but other things ... 'Doctor Who,' I don't really care about at all, I couldn't give a fig about it.

Nick Frost

#18. Deep within yourself, listen to your conscience which calls you to be pure ... a home is not warmed by the fire of pleasure which burns quickly like a pile of withered grass. Passing encounters are only a caricature of love; they injure hearts and mock God's plan.

Pope John Paul II

#19. Maybe, if you can't get someone out of your head they were never meant to leave. Perhaps, they were meant to help change you into the person you have been waiting to become.

Shannon L. Alder

#20. 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' Big, big, big smash for me. My birth of the love of cinema was born with 'Close Encounters' and '2001.' Those sci-fi movies I saw when I was a little kid.

Denis Villeneuve

#21. It could be said that just about anyone we encounter is our neighbor, but it especially applies to those we would be least likely to love.

Leith Anderson

#22. If you should encounter angry or unkind actions today, take a deep breath, reach deep within and greet the lack of love with love.

Iyanla Vanzant

#23. You assume that my previous sexual encounters were completely fulfilling, but you're wrong. You gave me what I've never had - love and sex together. You're the only one who has ever been my lover in the true sense.

Sylvain Reynard

#24. Ethan: "Abstaining definitely doesn't work."
Beth: "what do you suggest?"
Ethan: "We're obviously going to have to make love often, but keep the encounters from getting too intense." He sounded perfectly serious, like he really believed what he was saying.

Lucy Monroe

#25. I was never satisfied with casual encounters, I can't hide my need for two hearts that bleed with burning love.

Madonna Ciccone

#26. The widespread assumption that ethical behavior takes the fun out of life is false. In actuality, living ethically ensures that relationships in our lives, including encounters with strangers, nurture our spiritual growth.

Bell Hooks

#27. It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child.

Maria Montessori

#28. If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to make? What life changing relationships or passionate and lasting love affairs are lost to chance?

Simon Pegg

#29. Life is always a series of encounters that demand you prove your love.

Shannon L. Alder

#30. 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