"This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive……" — Henri Nouwen
"This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love."
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343 Quotes by Henri Nouwen
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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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In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
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Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used…
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As a father, physician and nurse, I have a special place in my heart for children, and I know the…
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The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine…
— Juvenal
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It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation,…
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You're like this little blip of light that lasts for a very brief time and you can shine as brightly…
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All our moments are last moments. We abide in the forever leaving of our own coming? We can put our…
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We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to…
— Susan Faludi
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Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to…
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