The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.
When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever.
I look at problems as opportunities and use every person, every incident, and every encounter as an opportunity to show a more loving part of myself.
I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.
To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.
When I mention somebody, that doesn't necessarily mean that I identify with him, personally or poetically. I'm extremely happy when I encounter poets who are different than I am. The ones who have their own distinct poetics provide me with the greatest experiences.
Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly.
Everything you encounter is your life.
No purpose intervenes between I and You, no greed and no anticipation; and longing itself is changed as it plunges from the dream into appearance. Every means is an obstacle. Only where all means have disintegrated encounters occur.
Problems are invitations. They allow us to have encounters and experiences that enable us to discover who God is for us.
History is the record of encounters between character and circumstance.
Always observe your opponent carefully. You need to use the first seconds of every encounter to evaluate the length of their blade, the length of their arms, etc.
However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.
It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing anguish when one encounters the comic.
If you encounter a human shadow burned permanently into the concrete in Hiroshima, you realize that this is the trace of a very ordinary person now elevated into the emblematic. Time, shame, complicity, or discomfort are the only things that make us pretend History is impersonal or far removed from the power and consequences of our every lived moment.
For each one of you, as for the apostles, the encounter with the divine Teacher who calls you friends may be the beginning of an extraordinary venture: that of becoming apostles among your contemporaries to lead them to live their own experience of friendship with God, made Man, with God who has made himself my friend.
I think life is a learning lesson within itself. I think you should take the best out of everything that you see and that you encounter and make the best of it.
Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.
I think dating courtesies are common courtesies that should be practiced in most all civilized encounters. I pine for the days of good, old-fashioned manners.