A collection of quotes on the topic of meet, meeting, people, doing.
“Don't feel bad when you meet disappointment, it prepares you for an extraordinary ending”
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”
Source: Franny and Zooey
“We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.”
“Luck is when opportunity meets preparation.”
The Second Notebook
No Longer Human
Designing the Future (2007)
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
The British Weekly, 1897. http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/29/be-kind/
Misattributed
Variant: Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard battle.
“A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.”
My Twisted World (2014), Thoughts at 14
Variant translationː All actual life is encounter.
Variant: All real life is meeting.
Source: I and Thou (1923)
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.”
“Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.”
Variant: We're all water from different rivers,
That's why it's so easy to meet,
We're all water in this vast, vast ocean,
Someday we'll evaporate together.
“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
Source: Fables
“Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.”
Source: Diary of a Drug Fiend
"Everybody Knows"
I'm Your Man (1988)
Source: The Leonard Cohen Collection
Louisville, Kentucky http://www.kidbrothers.net/words/concert-transcripts/louisville-kentucky-jun2594.html (June 25, 1994)
In Concert
Canto V, lines 127–138 (tr. Mandelbaum).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
http://www.popmonk.com/actors/leonardo-dicaprio/quotes-leonardo-dicaprio.htm
Babur-Nama, translated into English by A.S. Beveridge, New Delhi reprint, 1979, pp. 574-75
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.”
Attributed to Philo in How Do We Know When It's God?: A Spiritual Memoir (1999) by Dan Wakefield. It has also been wrongly attributed to Plato and Ephrem the Syrian. It is a variant of the Christmas message "Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard battle," written by the Scottish preacher Ian Maclaren (also known as John Watson) in 1897.
Be Kind; Everyone You Meet is Fighting a Hard Battle. Plato? Philo of Alexandria? http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/29/be-kind/.
Misattributed
Quote in a letter from Giverny to Gustave Geffroy, 23 November 1894; as cited in: P. Michael Doran (2001), Art Conversations with Cézanne, p. 3
1890 - 1900
On Being, The Wisdom of Tenderness (transcript) http://www.onbeing.org/program/wisdom-tenderness/transcript/1369 Interview with Krista Tippett, December 24, 2009
From interviews and talks
“Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers,
things standing shall fall,
but the moving ever shall stay.”
Basava’s saying in his “The Lord of the Meeting Rivers: Devotional Poems of Basavanna” quoted in The Lord of the Meeting Rivers Quotes, 23 November 2013, Goodreads.com http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3772282-the-lord-of-the-meeting-rivers-devotional-poems-of-basavanna,
Quotes, IPI speech (2000)
Context: The disruption of the world's ecological systems — from the rise of global warming and the consequent damage to our climate balance, to the loss of living species and the depletion of ocean fisheries and forest habitats — continues at a frightening rate. Practically every day, it becomes clearer to us that must act now to protect our Earth, while preserving and creating jobs for our people.
And at the very same time that these threats are developing, the traditional nation-state itself is changing — as power moves upwards and downwards, to everything from supra-national organizations and coalitions all the way down to feuding clans. Susceptible to tyrants willing to exploit ethnic and religious rivalries, the weakest of these states have either imploded into civil war or threatened to lash out across their borders.
To meet these challenges requires cooperation on a scale not seen before. A realistic reading of the world today demands reinvigorated international and regional institutions. It demands that we confront threats before they spiral out of the control. And it requires American leadership — to protect our interests and uphold our values.
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.”
"The Great Wagon" Ch. 4 : Spring Giddiness, p. 36
Variant translations:
Between wrongness and rightness there is a field. I will meet you there.
As quoted in Counselling Psychology : Integration of Theory, Research and Supervised Practice (1998) by Petruska Clarkson
Out beyond the world of ideas of wrong doing and right doing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
As quoted in Lightning in a Bottle : Proven Lessons for Leading Change (2000) by David H. Baum
Out beyond ideas of right and wrong doing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
As quoted in Architects of Peace : Visions of Hope in Words and Images (2002) by Michael Collopy, p. 109
Out beyond ideas of rightdoing
and wrongdoing
There is a field.
I will meet you there.
Strategic Learning in a Knowledge Economy : Individual, Collective and Organizational Learning Processes (2000) by Robert L. Cross and Sam B. Israelit
The Essential Rumi (1995)
Context: Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about
language, ideas, even the phrase each other
doesn't make any sense.
From Sex to Superconsciousness
Context: Whenever I meet prostitutes, they never speak of sex. They inquire about the soul, and about God. I also meet many ascetics and monks, and whenever we are alone they ask about nothing but sex. I was surprised to learn that ascetics, who are always preaching against sex, seem to be captivated by it. They are curious about it and disturbed by it; they have this mental complex about it, yet they sermonize about religion and about the animal instincts in man. And sex is so natural.
Variant translations:<p>But the palm of courage will surely be adjudged most justly to those, who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Thuc.+2.40.3<p>And they are most rightly reputed valiant, who though they perfectly apprehend both what is dangerous and what is easy, are never the more thereby diverted from adventuring. (translation by Thomas Hobbes http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=771&chapter=90127&layout=html&Itemid=27)<p>
Book II, 2.40-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II
“The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet.”
Blüthenstaub (1798), Unsequenced
Context: The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
Source: https://www.facebook.com/LifeWithoutACentre/posts/1523252961105640
“We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.”
“We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.”
Commonly misquoted, converted to imperative mood, as "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler".
Walden (1854)
“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.”
“One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love”
Source: The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy
“If I ever meet myself,' said Zaphod, 'I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me.”
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Also quoted in "Stephen Hawking warns over making contact with aliens" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8642558.stm at BBC News (25 April 2010).
Into The Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010)
Context: If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans. … We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.
Source: The Salmon of Doubt
Source: Crocodile on the Sandbank
“One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.”
Source: The Quest of the Historical Jesus (1906), p. 397
Aphorism 3
Novum Organum (1620), Book I
a special instance of love at first sight
Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.338.30
The Way of God's Will Chapter 1-6. Suffering, Offering, and Obedience http://www.unification.org/ucbooks/WofGW/wogw1-06.htm Translated 1980.
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
Attributed to Plato in No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life (1992) by Dan Millman. It has also been wrongly attributed to Philo. It is a variant of the Christmas message "Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard battle," written by the Scottish preacher Ian Maclaren (also known as John Watson) in 1897.
Be Kind; Everyone You Meet is Fighting a Hard Battle. Plato? Philo of Alexandria? http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/29/be-kind/
Misattributed
About Ernie Terrell before their February 1967 boxing match, - ( YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVZYo2MYmfg
Source: https://books.google.ca/books?id=6ClZDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA120&lpg=PA120&dq=I+think+Terrell+will+catch+hell+at+the+sound+of+the+bell&source=bl&ots=2atsVuDXae&sig=ACfU3U0qSka952BOrSsGqAg13ji8vvdxPw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiK1sa854jvAhWY_J4KHe0xAf0Q6AEwEnoECAQQAw#v=onepage&q=I%20think%20Terrell%20will%20catch%20hell%20at%20the%20sound%20of%20the%20bell&f=false Ali: The Official Portrait of "The Greatest" of All Time
2012, Remarks at Clinton Global Initiative (September 2012)
Daniel doesn’t mind the whisperings of people questioning his sexuality http://anythinghollywood.com/2009/07/daniel-radcliffe-likes-gay-rumors/
Ned Rorem, Paris Diary (1966)
“Here one must leave behind all hesitation;
here every cowardice must meet its death.”
Canto III, lines 14–15 (tr. Mandelbaum).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
Source: What I Saw At Shiloh (1881), V
Source: Religion and Empire: People, Power, and the Life of the Spirit (2003), p. 51
“Sex is like a beautiful meeting of genitalia. It's the dance of love between a penis and vagina.”
Interview with BASE Magazine (April 2005).
“I shall meet your General in the warfield.”
In context of meeting by British General during the Anglo-Nepalese War as quoted in http://www.insightverse.com/2015/08/10-famous-nepalese-personalities-with.html?m=1 and page no. 14 of [Fraser, James Baillie, 1820, Journal of a Tour Through Part of the Snowy Range of the Himālā Mountains, and to the Sources of the Rivers Jumna and Ganges, London, Rodwell and Martin, https://books.google.com/?id=7ZlBAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false, 69385527]
The Smile, st. 1
1800s, Poems from the Pickering Manuscript (c. 1805)
1870s, Speech before the Pole-Bearers Association (1875)
Interview with Bravo Magazine 2007 http://www.danradcliffe.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23&Itemid=28
Written of her experience with actress Marilyn Monroe in a letter to the American author, Fleur Cowles Meyer, in 1961. As quoted in Fragments, by Stanley Buchthal and Bernard Comment (2010)
"As I Please," The Tribune (17 January 1947)
"As I Please" (1943–1947)
Context: This business of making people conscious of what is happening outside their own small circle is one of the major problems of our time, and a new literary technique will have to be evolved to meet it. Considering that the people of this country are not having a very comfortable time, you can't perhaps, blame them for being somewhat callous about suffering elsewhere, but the remarkable thing is the extent to which they manage to be unaware of it. Tales of starvation, ruined cities, concentration camps, mass deportations, homeless refugees, persecuted Jews — all this is received with a sort of incurious surprise, as though such things had never been heard of but at the same time were not particularly interesting. The now-familiar photographs of skeleton-like children make very little impression. As time goes on and the horrors pile up, the mind seems to secrete a sort of self-protecting ignorance which needs a harder and harder shock to pierce it, just as the body will become immunised to a drug and require bigger and bigger doses.
Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton : The Illustrated London News, 1905-1907 (1986), p. 191
Quoted in " Goodbye Margherita Hack, “The Lady of the Stars.”", iitaly.org (1 July 2013) http://www.iitaly.org/magazine/focus/facts-stories/article/goodbye-margherita-hack-lady-stars?mode=colorbox.
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Said often during his presidency (1981–1989)
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
p. 49 http://books.google.com/books?id=U6lMnx8AQsYC&q=%22The+meeting+of+two+personalities+is+like+the+contact+of+two+chemical+substances+if+there+is+any+reaction+both+are%22+%22transformed%22&pg=PA49#v=onepage
Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)
Variant: The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Source: Psychological Reflections: A New Anthology of His Writings 1905-61
“Four will Become Two, Lion and Tiger will Meet in Battle, and Blood will Rule the Forest.”
Source: A Dangerous Path
“There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
