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Present Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully we become aware…
- When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find salvation in a…
- Gratitude as a discipline involves a conscious choice. I can choose to be grateful even when my emotions and feelings are still steeped in hurt…
- Our spiritual life is a life in which we wait, actively present to the moment, expecting that new things will happen to us, new things…
- Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be…
- Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present…
- One of the experiences of prayer is that it seems that nothing happens. But when you start with it and look back over a long…
- Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be…
- God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.
- solitude begins with a time and a place for God, and God alone. If we really believe not only that God exists but also that…
- [...]when two people have become present to each other, the waiting of one must be able to cross the narrow line between the living or…
- Teaching, therefore, asks first of all the creation of a space where students and teachers can enter into a fearless communication with each other and…
- While optimism makes us live as if someday soon things will soon go better for us, hope frees us from the need to predict the…
- Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give: a smile, a handshake, a…
- In 1970 I felt so lonely that I could not give; now I feel so joyful that giving seems easy. I hope that the day…
- The friend who cares makes it clear that whatever happens in the external world, being present to each other is what really matters. In fact,…
More Present Quotes
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- Confine yourself to the present. — Marcus Aurelius
- Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today… — Marcus Aurelius
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida
- An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt
- Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. — Roger Babson
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet
- In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon