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Humans Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the results of our…
- ...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your brothers and sisters. Up until…
- If you feel a great loneliness and a deep longing for human contact, you have to be extremely discerning...and ask yourself whether this situation is…
- Each individual human being can claim the Spirit of Jesus as the guiding spirit of his or her life. In that Spirit we can speak…
- Today I personally believe that while Jesus came to open the door to God's house, all human beings can walk through that door, whether they…
- Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many joy seems hard to find. They complain that their lives are sorrowful and depressing. What…
- The mystery of the spiritual life is that Jesus desires to meet us in the seclusion of our own heart, to make his love known…
- Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.
- No one person can fulfill all your needs. But the community can truly hold you. The community can let you experience the fact that, beyond…
- Indeed, when God's glory dwells in me, there is nothing too far away, nothing too painful, nothing too strange or too familiar that it cannot…
- 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…
- Although many, we might even say most, strangers in this world become easily the victim of a fearful hostility, it is possible for men and…
- Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition…
- Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or common histories. It…
- Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.
- Through prayer we can carry in our heart all human pain and sorrow, all conflicts and agonies, all torture and war, all hunger, loneliness and…
- As long as our restlessness, anxiety, and feelings of guilt dominate our work as peacemakers we cannot last long. But when we have opened each…
- We are called to be fruitful - not successful, not productive, not accomplished. Success comes from strength, stress, and human effort. Fruitfulness comes from vulnerability…
- Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.
- The spiritual life is a reaching out to our innermost self, to our fellow human and to our God.
- Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive…
- His (Christ's) appearance in our midst has made it undeniably clear that changing the human heart and changing human society are not separate tasks, but…
- We have probably wondered in our many lonesome moments if there is one corner in this competitive, demanding world where it is safe to be…
- Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges…
- In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong