Able Quote by Henri Nouwen

“The man who articulate the movements of his inner life, who can give names to his varied experiences, need no longer be a victim…

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They…

— Emile Durkheim

Man, as a spiritual being, cannot be maintained in strength, uprightness, and peace except if he periodically withdraw himself from the outer world of…

— James Allen

“There comes a stage, whether in meditation or in the ordinary daily experience of life, at which he has to cross over from doing,…

— Paul Brunton

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which…

— James Allen

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work,…

— Anonymous

“A man may go through life and remain ignorant of himself he may think himself as other than he truly is and he may…

— Barry Unsworth

The man who succeeds must always in mind or imagination live, move, think, and act as if he had gained that success, or he…

— Prentice Mulford

The ultimate weakness of a man is when his spirit is crushed with no hope rather than how disable or handicapped he is

— Rudzani Ralph

Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very…

— Adam Smith