"Our brokenness has no other beauty but the……" — Henri Nouwen

"Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it."

— Henri Nouwen

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343 Quotes by Henri Nouwen

Henri Nouwen has 343 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life…
Why is it important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's…
All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy…
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is…
In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling…
Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared.
Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the…
When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we…
...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your…
Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is…
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to…

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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