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Henri Nouwen has 347 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than…
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Why is it important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's the place…
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All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all…
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Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice…
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In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
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A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the…
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Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared.
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Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully…
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When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find…
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...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your brothers and…
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Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be…
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To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it…
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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
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High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred…
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The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the…
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That little bird has chosen his shelter. Above it are the stars and the deep heaven of worlds. Yet he is rocking…
— Martin Luther
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I hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers.
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The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird,…
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Little Bird if you do not sing for me, I will wait for you
— Ieyasu Tokugawa
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Little Bird if you don't sing for me I will make you sing
— Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface where the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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A little bird told me that jumping is easy and the falling is fun, right up until you hit sidewalk shivering and…
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