Meeting People Quotes

“They say faith is taking the first step when you can’t see the whole staircase. Actually, wisdom is seeing the elevator behind it that would have taken you to the top floor.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“That's the ideal meeting...once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again.”
― Helen Oyeyemi

“Each person you meet influences your mental universe in a way that has the potential to make a substantial impact upon the causality of the intellectual development of an entire species.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost

“Wir sind voller Begegnungen, Begegnungen ohne Dauer und ohne Abschied, wie die Sterne. Sie nähern sich, stehen Lichtsekunden nebeneinander entfernen sich wieder: ohne Spur, ohne Bindung, ohne Abschied.”
― Wolfgang Borchert, Draußen vor der Tür

“We meet so many people in life, but we connect to the heart of very few!”
― Avijeet Das

“Toulouse is to lose.
Good on us,

That one never lied
And said it’s still alive.
A full life is a series
Of incompletions.
Whole with holes.
Entirely fragmented.
Carrying one-days,
Sentences,
Old lovers,
And looks.
Absolutes turn men and women

Into machines that need

Numbers to work.

But people were never meant to work
Just to live.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“Sometimes we meet someone and feel like we have known them all our lives”
― Avijeet Das

“Back in my day, people met in the real world, not on their telephones.”
― Julianne MacLean, A Fire Sparkling

“We writers write stories on the people we come across in life. We meet many people and each person leaves behind a part of himself or herself with us. And then one day the writer's life becomes a story!”
― Avijeet Das

“Let us meet each other with a smile, smile is the beauty of the soul.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Where you are in five years depends on who you meet today!”
― George Stamatiss

“Listen to the opposing side as if they were going to have to write a newspaper or magazine article about them.”
― Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

“Your life just got a whole lot more complicated when you met me.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“When I was young,
I only painted flowers;
Once I became older
I learnt that flowers meant hope.
We give them when we meet someone
for the first home,
and we give them
to bury someone, as a final goodbye.”
― Laura Chouette

“You ever think what it would be like to meet a person you've known for a long time for the first time in these later years? To meet them anew. You're thinking they would be a much different person to you if you didn't know their history.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

“Travel can broaden our perspective, enabling us to rise above the advertiser-driven infotainment we call the news to see things as citizens of the world. By plugging directly into the present and getting the world's take on things firsthand, a traveler goes beyond traditional sightseeing.”
― Rick Steves, For the Love of Europe: My Favorite Places, People, and Stories

“We're too old to think we'll meet again.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less

“When you meet someone at a time when you are still basically unfamiliar with the country he or she finds from, you are unable to make all those subtle distinctions you unconsciously rely on at home - accent, pronunciation, mode of dress, physical bearing - to give you what is often vital information about a new acquaintance.”
― Sari Gilbert, My Home Sweet Rome: Living (and loving) in Italy's Eternal City

“You meet some people. At first, you feel that they have similar perspective about life. But once you get to know them a little better, then you see that they have certain things that have engulfed their life. You try to understand them. But you can't really understand another person who may have faced myriad different situations in life than your own. So, you hope that they find their happiness, and wish them well.”
― Avijeet Das , The Black Mask in Thamel: Ravish's Journey into the Unknown

“A wizardly man soon learns that few indeed of his meetings are chance ones, be they good or for ill.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“Leadership is meeting people where they are so you can take them where they need to go.”
― Todd Stocker, Leading From The Gut: 3 Power Principles of Effective Leaders

“Some people you meet for the first time, and then you get to know them. Then there are the very few that you get to meet for the first time and instantly recognize.”
― Jury Nel

“We have never met anyone like anyone.”
― Marion Bekoe

“Do I know you?" Amaram asked.
"No," Wit said lightly, "but fortunately, you can add it to the list of many, many things of which you are ignorant.”
― Brandon Sanderson

“People come into your life to either support or distract you from your journey; know the difference.”
― Marion Bekoe

“A writer's life is different from the life of a normal man's life. A writer cannot settle down at one place. He has to keep traveling and drifting from one place to another. Because his travels give meaning and substance to his stories and poetry, he must keep on traveling. The people he meets and the places he visits give unique perspectives to him to think, reflect and write about.

A writer does not belong to one village, one city, one town, or one country. A writer belongs to the world.”
― Avijeet Das

“A writer's life is different from that of a normal man's. A writer cannot settle down in one place. He has to keep traveling and drifting from one place to another. Because his travels give meaning and substance to his stories and poetry, he must keep on traveling. The people he meets and the places he visits give him unique perspectives to think about, reflect on, and write about.

A writer does not belong to one village, one city, one town, or one country. A writer belongs to the world.”
― Avijeet Das

“Most people have their own unique way of looking at life, and the way they look at life keeps on 'changing.' It cannot be like 'a fixed concept' that they desperately want to hold on to. Rather,it is flowing and changing like a fluid like water and not solid like a stone. A stone is a solid, inanimate object, but the way people look at everything and the way they think in their minds is fluid, like a liquid that takes the shape of the container that it finds itself in. 
 
This 'changing' happens according to the circumstances that they encounter in their everyday lives, the situations that they find themselves in, and the people that they interact with on a day-to-day basis.If they meet and interact with the same people and find themselves in similar situations, then their philosophy solidifies into a solid, inanimate object.
 
On the other hand, if they meet new people and find themselves in new situations, then their thoughts change and the way they look at life too changes. If you can understand the psychology of a person, then you can understand them better. I feel grateful to the people I have met in life who have changed my way of looking at life.
 
~ Avijeet Das 
 

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― Avijeet Das

“Most people have their own unique way of looking at life, and the way they look at life keeps on 'changing.' It cannot be like 'a fixed concept' that they desperately want to hold on to. Rather, it is flowing and changing like a fluid like water and not solid like a stone. A stone is a solid, inanimate object, but the way people look at everything and the way they think in their minds is fluid, like a liquid that takes the shape of the container that it finds itself in. 
 
This 'changing' happens according to the circumstances that they encounter in their everyday lives, the situations that they find themselves in, and the people that they interact with on a day-to-day basis.If they meet and interact with the same people and find themselves in similar situations, then their philosophy solidifies into a solid, inanimate object.
 
On the other hand, if they meet new people and find themselves in new situations, then their thoughts change and the way they look at life too changes. If you can understand the psychology of a person, then you can understand them better. I feel grateful to the people I have met in life who have changed my way of looking at life. 
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― Avijeet Das

“Bambi schien das eine wie das andere überaus hochmütig, die Art, wie der Hirsch ihn angeblickt hatte, und die Art, wie er jetzt vor sich hin sah, als sei niemand sonst zugegen.
Bambi wußte nicht, was er tun sollte. Er war mit der festen Absicht herausgekommen, den Hirsch anzusprechen. Guten Morgen, hatte er sagen wollen, ich heiße Bambi... darf ich um Ihren werten Namen bitten?
Jawohl! Er hatte sich das sehr einfach vorgestellt, und nun zeigte es sich, daß die Sache doch nicht so einfach war. Was half da die beste Absicht? Bambi wollte nicht gerne ungezogen sein, und das war er, wenn er hier herauskam, ohne ein Wort zu sagen. Er wollte auch nicht zudringlich sein, und das war er, wenn er zu reden anfing.
Der Hirsch stand empörend majestätisch da. Bambi war hingerissen und fühlte sich gedemütigt. Vergebens suchte er sich aufzurütteln und wiederholte immer wieder nur den einen Gedanken: Warum lasse ich mich denn einschüchtern..? Ich bin gerade so viel wie er... gerade so viel wie er!
Es half nichts. Bambi blieb eingeschüchtert und spürte es im Grunde seines Wesens, daß er doch nicht gerade so viel sei. Lange nicht. Ihm war jämmerlich zumut, und er brauchte seine ganze Kraft, um einigermaßen Haltung zu bewahren.
Der Hirsch sah ihn an und dachte: Er ist reizend... er ist wirklich entzückend... so hübsch... so zierlich... so fein in seinem ganzen Benehmen... Aber ich darf ihn nicht so anstarren. Das schickt sich wirklich nicht. Außerdem könnte es ihn auch in Verlegenheit bringen.
Und er schaute wieder über Bambi weg ins Leere.
Dieser hochmütige Blick! stellte Bambi fest. Es ist unerträglich, was so einer sich einbildet!
Der Hirsch dachte: Ich möchte gerne mit ihm sprechen... er ist so sympathisch... wie dumm, daß man nie miteinander redet! Und er blickte nachdenklich vor sich hin.
Ich bin Luft für ihn, sagte Bambi, diese Sippe tut immer, als sei sie ganz allein auf der Welt!
Aber was soll ich zu ihm sagen..? überlegte der Hirsch, ... ich habe keine Übung... ich werde eine Dummheit sagen und mich lächerlich machen... denn er ist gewiß sehr klug.
Bambi nahm sich zusammen und sah den Hirsch fest an. Wie prächtig er ist! dachte er verzweifelt.
Nun... vielleicht ein andermal... entschloß sich schließlich der Hirsch und ging unzufrieden, aber herrlich davon.
Bambi blieb verbittert zurück.”
― Felix Salten, Bambi: A Life in the Woods