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Existence Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- The life-converting experience is not the discovery that I have choices to make that determine the way I live out my existence, but the awareness…
- A prayerful life is not a life in which we say many prayers, but a life in which nothing, absolutely nothing, is done, said, or…
- Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.
- To receive spiritual direction is to recognize that God does not solve our problems or answer all our questions, but leads us closer to the…
- Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?-are not questions with an answer but questions that open us up to new…
- The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is…
- I kept running around it in large or small circles, always looking for someone or something able to convince me of my Belovedness. Self-rejection is…
- Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable.
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into… — David Attenborough
- The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In… — Paul Auster
- An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. — Honore de Balzac
- Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. — Honore de Balzac
- I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence. — David Bailey
- But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the… — Henry Adams
- There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened. — Charles Baudelaire