"It is in solitude that we discover that being is more important than having and that we are worth more than the results of our efforts. In solitude we discover that our life is not a possession to be defended but a gift to be shared."

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Source : Henri J. M. Nouwen (2017). “You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Hachette UK

Henri Nouwen

#Effort Quotes #Solitude Quotes #Important Quotes

“And this presence of the Spirit will enlighten not only yellow skin people or white skin people but even black skin people. I believe in the last days the Spirit of God will be poured out in the nations of Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. Because Jesus Christ is the Lord. Jesus Christ is the Lord of the Universe. Amen.”
“We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually stopped.”
“Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime.”

Source : Caroline Pratt (2014). “I Learn from Children: An Adventure in Progressive Education”, p.31, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.”
“In the beginning was simplicity.”
“It seems to me that he has never loved, that he has only imagined that he has loved, that there has been no real love on his part. I even think that he is incapable of love; he is too much occupied with other thoughts and ideas to become strongly attached to anyone earthly.”
“Of all the poetry written in our generation, Frost's is most likely to stand the test of time”
“It’s a strange sort of attack, to be sure: a wonderfully pacific attack, a supportive attack, an attack without the slightest intention or capacity to cause harm, consisting, as it does, of the earnest wish of certain loving couples to join themselves to that very institution and thus to feel themselves, and be accepted as, full members of the American (and human) family.”

Source : "Distraction" by Hendrik Hertzberg, www.newyorker.com. June 19, 2006.

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