Encounters Quotes

“Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.”
― P.D. James, The Lighthouse

“The loss of an eager and unrestrained longing for someone or the lack of an unyielding desire of momentous incidents in life may blur the peculiar aura and the soothing tint of contingent encounters. ( “Twilight of desire “ )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“While times are changing at a lightning-fast pace, new rules exact inexorable adjustments, in line with our encounters, consistent with our experiences, and in step with our needs. If they appear, however, to be incompatible with our inner self, they may raise a hell of a war in our mind and compel us to take to the hills. (“If he doesn't play ball»)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Encounters may help us discover our inner world, reveal us to ourselves and unshackle us from prejudices, but still, they can disrupt our thinking patterns when they make us too dependent or needy. However, if they give voice to our life choices and offer inner freedom, they inspire and enlighten us. ("I seek you")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Liberty is a supreme precious good. It is our compass and reacts to our encounters, bumps into new realities, and navigates through the complexity of our world. It is map-reading the focus of our attention and listening to the wisdom of our past. Our freedom shall follow the signals of the lighthouse of our emotional intelligence and, at the same time, take account of the social veracities. (“The infinite Wisdom of Meditation“)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Meditation lets us become humble and free ourselves from the cumbersome dead weight of self-opinion. Insight and gratefulness are significant footholds in life. The insight that sets out the path we must walk and gratefulness that lets us discover the precious jewels of the encounters throughout our journey in the rabbit hole of our minds. (“The rabbit hole of Meditation”)”
― Erik Pevernagie, The rabbit hole of Meditation: The author’s reflections selected and illustrated by his readers

“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

“If the private life of the sea could ever be transposed onto paper, it would talk not about rivers or rain or glaciers or of molecules of oxygen and hydrogen, but of the millions of encounters its waters have shared with creatures of another nature.”
― Federico Chini, The Sea Of Forgotten Memories

“The more people I meet the happier I become.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“you draw"
(the painter)”
― Sarah Dunant, The Birth of Venus

“Or maybe our paths will diverge someday, taking us in separate directions, making our relationship a brief but beautiful spot in a series of unforgettable encounters. Either way, it will be a journey worth taking. Either way, it will be a love story.”
― Crystal Cestari, The Best Kind of Magic

“The people you meet in your life, you meet them for a specific purpose: To help them and to be helped by them. So, try to spot the treasure in your everyday life, because one day you may realize you had the treasure and you lost it.”
― Maria Karvouni

“Like a house that has a home and a river that flows, so does love become when you open your heart, even when the lights go out or the flow encounters rocks.”
― Goitsemang Mvula

“There are certain encounters that one knows will never be repeated so long as one lives. The firstborn child can't be born twice; one's virginity, once lost, can never be found again; the sheer awe one feels when laying hand on a giant sequoia cannot be rivaled. Other times escape our notice, slipping by while we are preoccupied, and we do not appreciate their enormity until it's too late to do anything but regret that we had not paid more attention in the present.
For me, the times I always regret are missed opportunities to say farewell to good people, to wish them long life and say to them in all sincerity, "You build and do not destroy; you sow goodwill and read it; smiles bloom in the wake of your passing, and I will keep your kindness in trust and share it as occasion arises, so that your life will be a quenching draught of clam in a land of drought and stress." Too often I never get to say that when it should be said. Instead, I leave them with the equivalent of a "Later, dude!" only to discover some time afterward that there would never be a later for us.”
― Kevin Hearne, Hammered

“Three tiny children excitedly gathered around a butterfly majestically poised on a single flower. Each were utterly enraptured at this magnificent sight of gentle beauty. And when the butterfly suddenly took to the sky, all three children ecstatically waved goodbye as if it had somehow been the most phenomenal encounter of their day. And as adults caught in the rush of doing ‘adult’ things, we would do well to remember that the ‘phenomenal’ sits waiting for us on flowers and other such simple things.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Your sensuality is going to open up a world of deep encounters you’ve not yet even begun to imagine.”
― Lebo Grand

“I had two definite encounters with Hawaiian spirits. The first occurred on the forested slopes of Mauna Kea where I spent the night receiving instruction from a spirit. The second was an encounter with Poli’ahu, the snow goddess of Mauna Kea, that occurred near the summit of the sacred Hawaiian mountain.”
― Steven Magee

“I am self taught in how to control potentially dangerous encounters with police officers and how to deescalate the situation by calling 911.”
― Steven Magee

“Having had negative encounters with police officers, every time I hear of one being killed by a citizen I think to myself ‘What did the police do to them to make them kill?’.”
― Steven Magee

“They teach us to avoid strangers,
And life teaches us
that human awareness can only be borne out
Of the dagger of strangeness…
That life is tasteless
When we don’t mix it with strangers…
That familiarity is opposed to life!
And thus, I loudly declare:
A stranger I was born. A stranger I wish to remain!
And I ask that you issue my death certificate
The day I become familiar.”
― Louis Yako

“I had some toxic encounters with Merseyside Police when I lived in Liverpool. It was my first experience of police corruption and the blatant cover-ups the police engage in.”
― Steven Magee

“If your ex-girlfriend has a new lover that is a police officer, your radar should be on for unusual police encounters.”
― Steven Magee

“We are living in a society where all police encounters need to be video recorded from start to finish.”
― Steven Magee

“My policy of always recording police encounters saved me from toxic police officers in Denver International Airport.”
― Steven Magee

“You have to video record the police, as they are known to not turn on their body cameras during encounters.”
― Steven Magee

“Video recording police encounters may save your life.”
― Steven Magee

“Having made several 911 calls over the years to the police to ‘protect and serve’ me, I was not ‘protected and served’ during many of those encounters.”
― Steven Magee

“As a police corruption researcher, I have had encounters with police officers that have been involved with killing people.”
― Steven Magee

“I am a police corruption researcher and I want to know how their ‘blue brotherhood’ system works. You have to undergo the adverse police encounters to get the research.”
― Steven Magee

“If an encounter with a person doesn't feel right, probably it's not right.”
― Mitta Xinindlu