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Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else. -- David Mamet
Encounter every situation with your total consciousness, without any guilt. Enjoy music, enjoy food, enjoy love - enjoy everything that is natural. -- Rajneesh
Well, Brief Encounter is certainly one of my top five favorites of all time. I looked at Brief Encounter very closely, to be honest. -- Adrian Lyne
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
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. -- Maya Angelou
The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it. -- William Shakespeare
Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter. -- Denis Leary
I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable. -- Richard Avedon
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day. -- Nicolas Chamfort
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. -- Saint Francis de Sales
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. -- John Milton
It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters. -- Josh Radnor
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry. -- E. W. Howe
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it. -- Karlheinz Stockhausen
Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes. -- Gwendoline Christie
Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other. -- Albert Pike
It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives. -- Brendan Myers
We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice. -- Pope Paul VI
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. -- Albert Schweitzer
In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process. -- Sai Baba
You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed. -- Larry Flynt
The culture is about moving to a place where tobacco and smoking isn't part of normal life: people don't encounter it normally, they don't see it in their big supermarkets, they don't see people smoking in public places, they don't see tobacco vending machines. -- Andrew Lansley
When one is young, aspiring to play for the country, doing well, any hindrance, like injury or being out of form, can be frustrating and a cause of annoyance or even anger. But once you have a close encounter with death, you realise the real value of life. -- Yuvraj Singh
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
If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless. -- James E. Faust
I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense about morality, or with regard to what they value in life. I think this doubt about the application of science and reason to questions of value is really quite dangerous. -- Sam Harris
In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike. -- Maya Angelou
Divine-encounter exist any sacred-situation. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
All actual life is encounter. -- Martin Buber
Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate. -- Anatole France
You cannot, and will not, encounter -- Gary Zukav
Everything you encounter is your life. -- Kosho Uchiyama
Worship is about encounter-coming into God's presence -- Jack W. Hayford
Each encounter with Jesus changes our life. -- Pope Francis
Look for a miracle in every encounter. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
May you find new opportunities in every encounter. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Self Realization is the first encounter with reality. -- Nirmala Srivastava
Prayer is both conversation and encounter with God. -- Timothy Keller
Every child you encounter is a divine appointment. -- Wess Stafford
Notice the people you encounter in this life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
With every divine encounter, we receive new grace. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
We encounter great souls by reading great books. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
We experience a new life with divine encounter. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
We owe the world an encounter with God -- Bill Johnson
Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds. -- Albert Einstein
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies. -- John Milton
It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions. -- Frank Kermode
Every experience is an opportunity to encounter the Divine. -- Susan W. Krebs
Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity. -- Desiderius Erasmus
Every moment of searching is a moment of encounter. -- Paulo Coelho
In the future, you will always encounter the past! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Real elegance is simply a true encounter with oneself. -- Carole Bouquet
There is no truth to any meeting or physical encounter, -- Casper Smart
Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path. -- Tara Brach
A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind. -- Guy Finley
Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses. -- Francois Mauriac
No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger. -- Heraclitus
We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter. -- Luc de Clapiers
A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage. -- James J. Gibson
A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think. -- Mohsin Hamid
Watch out, every day miraculous encounter with you and God! -- Lailah Gifty Akita
No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy. -- Douglas MacArthur
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated." -- Maya Angelou
When you meet anyone, treat the even as a holy encounter. -- Wayne Dyer
I encounter one example after another of how relative truth is. -- Raoul Wallenberg
Genuine Christian experience must always include an encounter with God Himself. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Many of the unexpected opportunities we encounter are small but significant. -- S. Truett Cathy
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living. -- Guy de Maupassant
At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists. -- Robert B. Laughlin
Nothing is so irretrievably missed as an opportunity we encounter every day. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever. -- Luis Palau
We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Paranormal events are just edges of the infinite we 'happen' to encounter. -- C. Douglas Dillon
A full-blooded encounter for a number of reasons, many of them illegitimate. -- Jon Champion
Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter. -- Hadewijch
When we are living our dream, the difficulties we encounter make sense. -- Paulo Coelho
Every day at some point I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling. -- Chelsea Clinton
...the person you encounter is often more than the person you see. -- Clare Vanderpool
He who would lay hands upon us will encounter thorns and barbs! -- Adolf Hitler
To me, authentic love is a sacred encounter we all yearn for. -- Michael Beckwith
If on your journey you should encounter GOD, GOD will be cut -- Hattori Hanzo
Generally speaking, moving water is the most dangerous thing you can encounter underground. -- William Stone
Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens. -- Wayne Dyer
Quotologists encounter happy surprises, bright books by faded authors, treasures hidden under dust. -- Willis Regier
Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world. -- Rollo May
I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable. -- Richard Avedon
Whenever we encounter another person in love, we learn something new about God. -- Pope Francis
The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I want a real encounter with something true and disconcerting about peoples' natures. -- Karen Russell
There is no substitute for a firsthand encounter with the Word of God. -- Max Anders
Doesn't every encounter with God only cause us to thirst for Him more? -- Francis Chan
To every soul you encounter, be a mirror, which reflects only their beauty. -- Bryant H. McGill
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The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts. -- Bryant H. McGill
You must always remember, because the mediocre mind you encounter may be your own. -- Gilberto Hernandez
Our children were created with a deep hunger to encounter the supernatural living God. -- Becky Fischer
Students graduating with high debt encounter difficulties in qualifying for home and automobile loans. -- Hank Johnson
Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others. -- Sophie Swetchine
As I write, invariably I encounter more questions and answer those as I go. -- David B. Coe
Success is usually earned by persevering and not becoming discouraged when we encounter challenges. -- James E. Faust
When you run in places you visit, you encounter things you'd never see otherwise. -- Tom Brokaw
I have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier. -- James Lane Allen
Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck. -- Og Mandino
I try to simulate the most difficult conditions the players will encounter during competition. -- Mike Holder
Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which -- Arthur Koestler
You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated -- Ayn Rand
Sometimes we think we have a great prosperity but then we suddenly encounter the storm. -- jan jansen easy branches
Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter. -- Evan Osnos
Love is an active construction, and choice, not just an encounter that happens by chance. -- Masha Tupitsyn
I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter. -- Yoko Ono
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself. -- Gore Vidal
No encounter, mouth open up ... that is how the drug businesses see the general public. -- Jerry Seinfeld
To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing. -- Natalie Goldberg
The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Freedom from spiritual conflicts and bondage is not a power encounter; it's a truth encounter. -- Neil T Anderson
God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it. -- Amelie Nothomb

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