Henri Nouwen Quotes

Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on.

Henri Nouwen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: clergyman
  • Nationality: dutch
  • Birth: January 24, 1932 - September 21, 1996

Topics

LifeDisciplineSpiritualSpaceYou

I'd love to work with Missy Elliott. I'd love to work with Bonnie Raitt. I'd love, love, love to work with Barbra Streisand. I'm reaching, because why not? You don't know what's going to happen in this life.

Jill Scott

LifeWorkLoveYouKnowWhy

We've been around long enough and have been to enough award shows to know that it is easy to lose to Phil Collins at any time.

Matt Stone

TimeEnoughAwardLongEasyLose

Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.

Jeff Goodell

PowerHealthMomentRisksAttention

For the camera, particularly, I feel like - I think that, as human faces become older, they become more interesting.

Sigourney Weaver

ThinkFeelInterestingCameraBecome

When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.

Tom Perrotta

TeacherMyselfCultureWritingTried

'Borderlands' came out of nowhere to appease the gnawing hunger left behind with the dearth of quality dungeon crawlers on the market.

Rob Manuel

QualityHungerOutNowhereLeft

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Jean de la Bruyere

PeopleSpeakThinkDreamSilent

I have to respect my opponent, always, doesn't matter who he is, but I'll get in there and win. That's a fact.

Jose Aldo

RespectWinMatterOpponentAlways

I studied cooking in Spain after college.

Jose Garces

CookingCollegeSpainAfterStudied

Gospel music is never pessimistic, it's never 'oh my god, its all going down the tubes', like the blues often is.

Brian Eno

MusicGodDownBluesNeverGoing

I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.

Peter Greenaway

LoveDeathPeopleYouAdmitJust

I could have been on a path that led to different, more traditional teen romance, and 'Nip/Tuck' shook me loose from any generalization I might have been forced into. It helped me understand I wanted to take on things that were edgier, more challenging and riskier.

Seth Gabel

PathTeenMeUnderstandMoreTake

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