"Life is a gift to be grateful for……" — Henri Nouwen
"Life is a gift to be grateful for and not a property to cling to."
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343 Quotes by Henri Nouwen
Henri Nouwen has 343 quotes on this site.
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Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life…
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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…
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All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy…
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Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is…
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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…
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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…
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When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we…
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...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your…
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Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is…
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To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to…
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More Cling Quotes
This quote is filed under Cling Quotes,
one of 509 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is…
— James A. Baldwin
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Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.
— Dirk Benedict
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Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going…
— Sonny Bono
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We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of…
— Johannes Brahms
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It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And…
— Gabriel Byrne
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One nice thing about being a woman in Hollywood is that the women tend to be very close-knit. All of…
— Diablo Cody
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Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always…
— Seneca the Younger
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Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and…
— Emile Durkheim
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Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to Thy cross I cling
— Augustus Toplady
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Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and…
— William Osler
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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence;…
— Zhuangzi
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In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books.
— Elias Canetti
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