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Henri Inspirational Quotes (1244)

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Violence among all people is based on dissatisfaction, frustration and crushed ambition and people who don't know who to strike at and who to blame, and not willing to blame themselves.
John Henrik Clarke
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The first man to fence in a piece of land, saying this is mine and who found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
Henri Rousseau
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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
Robert Henri
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I think many times we charge the Lord for things we can do ourselves. If only we realized how well we have been equipped.
John Henrik Clarke
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I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were.
Henri Matisse
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I stood still, a prey to a thousand thoughts, stifled in the robe of the evening.
Henri
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Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self order is power.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.
Henri Nouwen
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Good families always ritualize the table. You can say, This is a Christmas meal this is a birthday meal.
Henri Nouwen
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The real question is: how can I live so that my death will be fruitful for others?
Henri Nouwen
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Do not tell everyone your story. You will only end up feeling more rejected. People cannot give you what you long for in your heart. The more you expect from people's response to your experience of abandonment, the more you will feel exposed to ridicule.
Henri Nouwen
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Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after you catch it is a business.
Tommy Henrich
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It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.
Henri Rousseau
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In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.
Henri Nouwen
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The mystery of ministry is that we have been chosen to make our own limited and very conditional love the gateway for the unlimited and unconditional love of God.
Henri Nouwen
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For me, dressing is always a question of principle, respect, a sense of order, not to disguise myself, even in rotten places.
Bernard-Henri Levy
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The spiritual life is a reaching out to our innermost self, to our fellow human and to our God.
Henri Nouwen
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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
Henri Bergson
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Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized... we shall have war.
Henri Bergson
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I am certainly not regenerating French art, but am struggling hard to accomplish something on an unlucky piece of paper which has done me no harm at all, and on which, believe me, I am doing nothing that is good... I hope things will improve eventually as it is, I am pretty wretched.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me that one day I would be a writer. I heard her, but I knew that I had to leave Georgia, and unlike my friend Ray Charles, I did not go around with 'Georgia on My Mind.'
John Henrik Clarke
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When you believe in what you are doing, when you are seeking justice for the killing of Daniel Pearl, when you want to alert public opinion to the plight of the massacred people of Darfur, or in the recently martyred former Soviet republic Georgia, it makes more sense to use the media than to work in silence.
Bernard-Henri Levy
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A sense of solitude is one of the most beautiful things that parents can give a child. It doesn't mean leaving the child alone, but it does mean creating safe spaces where the child can be with other people. It does mean directing their attention to God.
Henri Nouwen
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