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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 tired of hearing about innocent victims. It's fiction, If you live on this planet you're guilty, period, f*** you, next case,…
— George Carlin
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Recognize that you have the courage within you to fulfill the purpose of your birth. Summon forth the power of your inner…
— Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
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On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone.
— Maya Angelou
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Home is the place you return to when you have finally lost your soul. Home is the place where life is born,…
— Karen Maitland
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Nowhere on your birth certificate did it say life would be fair
— Trevor Jones
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Decisive moment: the one when you will be really alone. And it is perhaps this that makes her hesitate: not the void,…
— Helene Cixous
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In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today,…
— Frederick Buechner
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How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is…
— Edwin Way Teale
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Your birth may be common, But death must be history.
— Adolf Hitler
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It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.
— Christopher Eccleston
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Examine everything that you've been taught, not simply what you've been taught in school, but the images that have been held up…
— Frederick Lenz
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The truth for women living in a modern world is that they must take increasing responsibility for the skills they bring into…
— Michel Odent
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