“Don't feel bad when you meet disappointment, it prepares you for an extraordinary ending”
Cornelius Keagon (1996) Liberian humanitarian aid worker
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”
Cornelius Keagon (1996) Liberian humanitarian aid worker
Shams-i Tabrizi (1185–1248) 1185-1248, spiritual instructor of Mewlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhi.
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.”
Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now
“Luck is when opportunity meets preparation.”
Denzel Washington (1954) actor, screenwriter, director, producer
Jacque Fresco (1916–2017) American futurist and self-described social engineer
Designing the Future (2007)
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
Ian Maclaren (1850–1907) British theologian and writer
The British Weekly, 1897. http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/29/be-kind/ <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">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.”
Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941) lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement
Elliot Rodger (1991–2014) American spree killer
My Twisted World (2014), Thoughts at 14
Martin Buber book I and Thou
Variant translationː All actual life is encounter.
Variant: All real life is meeting.
Source: I and Thou (1923)
“What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.”
Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now
“Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.”
Elvis Presley (1935–1977) American singer and actor
Yoko Ono (1933) Japanese artist, author, and peace activist
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.”
Jean De La Fontaine (1621–1695) French poet, fabulist and writer.
Source: Fables
“Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.”
Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
"Everybody Knows"
I'm Your Man (1988)
Source: The Leonard Cohen Collection
Rich Mullins (1955–1997) American christian musician
Louisville, Kentucky http://www.kidbrothers.net/words/concert-transcripts/louisville-kentucky-jun2594.html (June 25, 1994) <br class="br">In Concert
Dante Alighieri book Inferno
Canto V, lines 127–138 (tr. Mandelbaum).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
Leonardo DiCaprio (1974) American actor and film producer
http://www.popmonk.com/actors/leonardo-dicaprio/quotes-leonardo-dicaprio.htm
Babur (1483–1530) 1st Mughal Emperor
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.”
Philo (-15–45 BC) Roman philosopher
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. <br class="br"> Be Kind; Everyone You Meet is Fighting a Hard Battle. Plato? Philo of Alexandria? http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/29/be-kind/. <br class="br">Misattributed
Claude Monet (1840–1926) French impressionist painter
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
Jean Vanier (1928–2019) Canadian humanitarian
On Being, The Wisdom of Tenderness (transcript) http://www.onbeing.org/program/wisdom-tenderness/transcript/1369 Interview with Krista Tippett, December 24, 2009 <br class="br">From interviews and talks
“Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers,
things standing shall fall,
but the moving ever shall stay.”
Basava (1134–1196) a 12th-century Hindu philosopher, statesman, Kannada Bhakti poet of Lingayatism
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,
Al Gore (1948) 45th Vice President of the United States
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.”
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
"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.
Rajneesh (1931–1990) Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement
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.
Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War
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> <br class="br">Book II, 2.40-[3] <br class="br">History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II
“The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet.”
Novalis book Blüthenstaub
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.
Jeff Foster (1980) Spiritual teacher
Source: https://www.facebook.com/LifeWithoutACentre/posts/1523252961105640
“We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.”
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
“We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.”
C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
Henry David Thoreau book Walden ou la vie dans les bois
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.”
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer
“One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love”
Elizabeth Aston (1948–2016) English writer
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.”
Douglas Adams book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
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). <br class="br">Into The Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010) <br class="br">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.
Elizabeth Peters Crocodile on the Sandbank
Source: Crocodile on the Sandbank
“One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.”
Loren Eiseley (1907–1977) US philosopher (1907-1977)
Albert Schweitzer book The Quest of the Historical Jesus
Source: The Quest of the Historical Jesus (1906), p. 397
C.G. Jung book Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self
a special instance of love at first sight
Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.338.30
Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012) Korean religious leader
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.”
Plato (-427–-347 BC) Classical Greek philosopher
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. <br class="br"> Be Kind; Everyone You Meet is Fighting a Hard Battle. Plato? Philo of Alexandria? http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/29/be-kind/ <br class="br">Misattributed
Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
About Ernie Terrell before their February 1967 boxing match, - ( YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVZYo2MYmfg <br class="br">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
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2012, Remarks at Clinton Global Initiative (September 2012)
Daniel Radcliffe (1989) English actor
Daniel doesn’t mind the whisperings of people questioning his sexuality http://anythinghollywood.com/2009/07/daniel-radcliffe-likes-gay-rumors/
Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990) American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist
Ned Rorem, Paris Diary (1966)
“Here one must leave behind all hesitation;
here every cowardice must meet its death.”
Dante Alighieri book Inferno
Canto III, lines 14–15 (tr. Mandelbaum).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
Source: What I Saw At Shiloh (1881), V
Richard A. Horsley (1939) Biblical scholar
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.”
Snoop Dogg (1971) American rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor
Interview with BASE Magazine (April 2005).
“I shall meet your General in the warfield.”
Balbhadra Kunwar (1789–1823) National hero of Nepal
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]
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
The Smile, st. 1
1800s, Poems from the Pickering Manuscript (c. 1805)
Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821–1877) Confederate Army general
1870s, Speech before the Pole-Bearers Association (1875)
Daniel Radcliffe (1989) English actor
Interview with Bravo Magazine 2007 http://www.danradcliffe.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23&Itemid=28
Karen Blixen (1885–1962) Danish writer
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)
George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
"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.
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton : The Illustrated London News, 1905-1907 (1986), p. 191
Margherita Hack (1922–2013) Italian astrophysicist and popular science writer
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.
Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
Said often during his presidency (1981–1989)
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
C.G. Jung book Modern Man in Search of a Soul
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 <br class="br">Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933) <br class="br">Variant: The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. <br class="br">Source: Psychological Reflections: A New Anthology of His Writings 1905-61
“There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Source: Essays and Lectures