"Before you step out into the world today, remember that you will encounter people whose struggles you do not know.

I am sure we do not need to restate the obvious when detailing the trials and tribulations we will encounter throughout our lives.

Recognize the struggle encountered; do not brave the storm alone.

No matter how well our lives appear to be proceeding, we will inevitably encounter days when the weight of the world feels more than we can handle.

If we do not have a basis by which we encounter undesirable outcomes, we will not come to understand the prerequisites of obtaining desirable outcomes.

We may have days where we encounter emotional struggles that weigh us down and make it difficult to get through the day. Remain resilient.

Do you frequently encounter days where you run out of the mental energy necessary to accomplish your goals?

He had been dazzled. Because of the dazzling brightness, he had had to kill [Seigen]. All who had encountered Seigen had had their hearts stolen by that brightness. That envy had turned to malice.

You are not permitted to live and die as a non-entity because you have encountered the greatness that is associated with Christ.

The presence of the Lord destroys a life of struggle. You will struggle until you encounter His presence.

It's the 'everyday' experiences we encounter along the journey to who we wanna be that will define who we are when we get there.

Paranormal events are just edges of the infinite we "happen" to encounter.

The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart, that wants to be found, wants to be spoken, wants to be elevated into the realm of sacredness.

Emotion is 'recognition'. When treasured moments are identified in the jungle of our personal history during a visual or aural encounter, we capture magic sparks from our past, arousing flashes of insight and revealing an inner flare. These instants of recognition may kindle enthralling emotion and fulfilling Inspirational. ("Those journeys of love")

The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn't know about yourself.

"Most of us are not raised to actively encounter our destiny. We may not know that we have one. As children, we are seldom told we have a place in life that is uniquely ours alone. Instead, we are encouraged to believe that our life should somehow fulfill the expectations of others, that we will (or should) find our satisfactions as they have found theirs. Rather than being taugh to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to others' versions of ourselves. We are brought up in our life as told to us by someone else! When we survey our lives, seeking to fulfill our creativity, we often see we had a dream that went glimmering because we believed, and those around us believed, that the dream was beyond our reach. Many of us would have been, or at least might have been, done, tried something, if...

Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.

I tended to find lines of poetry beautiful only when I encountered them quoted in prose, in the essays my professors had assigned in college, where the line breaks were replaced with slashes, so that what was communicated was less a particular poem than the echo of poetic possibility. Insofar as I was interested in the arts, I was interested in the disconnect between my experience of actual artworks and the claims made on their behalf; the closest I'd come to having a profound experience of art was probably the experience of this distance, a profound experience of the absence of profundity.

At times you've no one around to be blamed for all the shit you have to go through in life. It's not always the mistake of the people of the world that you were not granted something you wished so bad to have. It's just not written for you. It's not as easy to feel as it sounds to hear this fact from your loved ones who're trying to console you or read anywhere on a paper, unless and until you're in those circumstances experiencing the thing you loved the most taken away from your hands. Every second feels like torture that you've never heard, never encountered, or experienced before.

In order to resist fear and discouragement, it is necessary that through prayer - through a personal experience of God re-encountered, recognized and loved in prayer - we taste and see how good the Lord is (Psalm 34).

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

I encounter one example after another of how relative truth is.

The Dimwit's Guide to the Female Mind might assist your efforts in understanding human females. But it must be pointed out that this subject can be a dangerous adventure and should be undertaken with extreme caution. After all, human males have been trying to understand their females for generations, and most of the time they come away from these encounters looking like someone stuck their tails into an electric socket.

Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.