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True Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
- True Hospitality is welcoming the stranger on her own terms. This kind of hospitality can only be offered by those who've found the center of…
- We can be unhappy about many things, but jy can still be there... It is important to become aware that at every moment of our…
- To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches, arguments,…
- Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming…
- He who thinks that he is finished is finished. How true. Those who think that they have arrived, have lost their way. Those who think…
- Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.
- Where true inner freedom is, there is God. And where God is, there we want to be.
- Hiddenness is the place of purification. In hiddenness we find our true selves.
- Although we tend to think about saints as holy and pious, and picture them with halos above their heads and ecstatic gazes, true saints are…
- If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.
- Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true…
- We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with Him and Him alone. Only in the context of grace…
- When suddenly you seem to lose all you thought you had gained, do not despair. You must expect setbacks and regressions. Don't say to yourself…
- When we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible without being relativistic, convinced without…
- As long as we relate to the trees, the rivers, the mountains, the fields and the oceans as properties which we can manipulate according to…
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- I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original. — Aaliyah
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge… — Arthur Ashe
- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood