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Something Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- The dance of life finds its beginnings in grief......Here a completely new way of living is revealed. It is the way in which pain can…
- Without Pentecost the Christ-event - the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus - remains imprisoned in history as something to remember, think about and reflect…
- Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and…
- Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something. Prayer is to enter into that activity...…
- I can choose to grateful when I am criticized, even when my heart still responds in bitterness. I can choose to speak about goodness and…
- 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…
- It's not easy to sit and trust that in solitude God will speak to you - not as a magical voice but that God will…
- 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…
- Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the…
- A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the…
- 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…
- I have found it very important in my own life to try to let go of my wishes and instead to live in hope. I…
- A friend is more than a therapist or confessor, even though a friend can sometimes heal us and offer us God's forgiveness. A friend is…
- It is this nothingness (in solitude) that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful that everything in me wants to run…
- Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has…
- If we want other people to give us something that only God can give, we become a demon. We say, "Love me!" and before you…
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- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. — Giorgio Armani
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. — J. J. Abrams
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen