49 Encounters Quotes for You to Enjoy

The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. Christopher McCandless

Positive Life Day Joy Changing Our Sun Horizon New Greater Encounters Than Endlessly Different Experiences Each Each Day Hence

From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme. Jhumpa Lahiri

Alienation Borders Crossing Poetry Poets Writers Tension Between Beyond Narratives Always Been Exile Encounters Familiar Beginnings Wandering Literature Epic Theme Epic Poetry Stranger Novels Based Basic Assimilation

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay 'forever young at heart.' Wayne Dyer

You Heart Young Everyone Everything Stay Inside Take Come Most Knows Deal How Encounters Effectively Forever Child Essence Being Childlike Happily Planet Your Recapture Things

Stephen Hawking's been watching too many Hollywood movies. I think the only kind aliens in Hollywood are the ones created by Steven Spielberg - 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and 'E.T.,' for example. All other aliens are trying to suck our brains out. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Alien Example Think Too Other Our Out Kind Spielberg Only Hawking For Example Steven Steven Spielberg Been Encounters Brains Close Trying Movies Hollywood Hollywood Movies Created Suck Many Watching Third

Our rational minds often attempt to minimise or negate the mystical encounters. We forget the power of our experiences. We must embrace the reality of that event, which is a miracle. Brian Weiss

Reality Power Our Minds Must Embrace Miracle Rational Mystical Attempt Encounters Forget Often Experiences Which Event

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. Pablo Picasso

History Accidents Believe Only Encounters

The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The result is millions of flexible combinations in which one never encounters the stereotyped. Alvar Aalto

Best Nature World Result Herself Possible Never Mainly Smallest Combinations Occurs Encounters Committee Cells Which Flexible Connection Units Millions

Yes, both 'Being Human' and 'Outlander' are known for their loyal fanbases. The beauty of both of those jobs was that the characters were very removed from me. So I've been lucky to get off scot-free, without any strange encounters. The wigs, blood, and strange onscreen faces/voices - they haven't found their way into my day-to-day life. Yet. Andrew Gower

Life Me Strange Beauty Wigs Way Those Characters Jobs Outlander Both Onscreen Day-To-Day Day-To-Day Life Known Without Were Been Encounters Off Blood Yes Very Get Any Human Being Being Human Loyal Lucky Found

It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people. Bob Keeshan

Life Good Strength People Think Other Everyday Consider More Gentle Encounters Children Them Requires Prepared

Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory. Chaim Potok

Heart World Secular Reading Danny Religious Well Readings His Encounters Very Psychoanalytic Theory Element Chosen

Finding gainful employment to pay for housing is hard for any veteran experiencing homelessness. It's even more difficult for veterans who've also had encounters with police and stints in jail. Chris Gardner

Police Veteran Veterans Pay Difficult Finding More Had Also Employment Housing Encounters Any Jail Experiencing Hard Even Homelessness

So much were we together that Nanny became almost a part of me. Consequently, it was my occasional encounters with my parents that stand out as the events of the day. Christopher Robin Milne

Day Me Together Events Parents Out Part Almost Nanny Occasional Became Were Encounters Much Stand Consequently

A vaccine introduces a small amount or a tempered version of the virus into the body - just enough to that the body is able to recognize it and deal with it when it encounters it again in the future. Eula Biss

Future Enough Virus Recognize Tempered Able Small Deal Encounters Version Just Again Body Amount Vaccine

Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know? Gael Garcia Bernal

Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world. Gerald Edelman

World Single Every Way See Both Individual Computer Absolutely Development Brain Encounters Psychologists Many Cognitive

The mystery at the center of 'Burial Rites' is not who killed whom on the night of March 13, 1828. It is the mystery each of us encounters: Can we every truly know another? Can we ever truly know ourselves? Hannah Kent

Every Ourselves Rites Mystery Know Another Truly Encounters Burial Center Us Who Each Whom Ever March Night

I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires. For one thing, writers are generally much kinder, more empathetic, more generous people on the page than they are in person. Hanya Yanagihara

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger. Heraclitus

Prosperity Danger No-One Also Does Encounter Encounters

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew. Ivan Turgenev

Death Old Joke Anew Individual Encounters Each Each Individual

It's easier to write from my own life, and it's also more fun. I always write about relationships, for instance, whether they're romantic relationships, friendships, encounters... there's always a lesson to be learned from them. Jason Mraz

Life Own Lesson Relationships Easier About My Own More Write Instance Also Learned Always Encounters Friendships Romantic Whether Them Fun

When I saw the scene in 'Close Encounters,' and Richard Dreyfuss's son is screaming at him - that's a heartbreaking scene. And I remember being devastated by 'E.T.' Or when E.T. started to get sick. That broke me up a little bit. Jeff Nichols

There's a certain trope in young adult fiction. A young girl gets cancer and becomes this radiant person who's a fountain of insight. Everyone who encounters her is changed for the better. That doesn't happen all the time. The whole thing is much more difficult to process. Adults have trouble with it, so why shouldn't we expect teens to? Jesse Andrews

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My favorite sci-fi movie of all time is 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' Jim Parsons

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