Inspirational Quotations on Meeting

But here she comes, in the calm harbor of whose gentle breast, my tempest beaten soul may safely rest.—O, my heart’s joy, whate’er my sorrows be, they cease and vanish on beholding thee.—By this one view all my past pains are paid, and all I have to come, more easy made.
—John Dryden (1631–1700) English Poet, Literary Critic, Playwright

The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do.
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) American Head of State, Lawyer

The joy of meeting, not unmixed with pain.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82) American Poet, Educator, Academic

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
—Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) Swiss Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Philosopher

Ah me! the world is full of meetings such as this,—a thrill, a voiceless challenge and reply, and sudden partings after!
—Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–67) American Poet, Playwright, Essayist

I have not joyed an hour since you departed, for public miseries, and for private fears; but this blest meeting has o’erpaid them all.
—John Dryden (1631–1700) English Poet, Literary Critic, Playwright