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Henri Nouwen Quotes

Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Fear Experience Society Feel Anxiety

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.

Mother Health Child World Treat Say

It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.

Interesting Complicated Go Want More

Every three or four shows, we have somebody that will come up onstage and propose marriage.

Marriage Three Will Up Come Four

The first Parikrma school started in a slum where there were 70,000 people living below the poverty line. Our first school was on a rooftop of a building inside the slums, a second story building, the only second story building inside the slums. And that rooftop did not have any ceiling, only half a tin sheet. That was our first school.

School People Building Story Poverty

Being is like pretending.

Pretending Being Like

I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.

Children Together Think Grow Scared

When I was 10, we drove to Disney World. When we arrived, what impressed me most was the meticulous attention to detail; there wasn't a gum wrapper anyplace.

Me Detail World Attention Gum Most

I've always been in a rebel.

Rebel Always Been

Give me 10 high school pitchers, let me spend a week with them, and I'll show you 10 pitchers who won't balk. It's not that difficult, and they better learn it.

School Me High School Better Learn

When you get pure joy out of 'being' rather than 'doing' or 'seeing', that's when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things.

Joy Doing You Seeing Realize Out

In Chile, they had penas, where the community would come together to sing and plan how they were going to overthrow the government. There's a real hopefulness in that community style of organizing.

Community Style Together Government

We should at least make sure that patients are given the opportunity to opt out of spending their final days in a hospital, hooked up to tubes and running up enormous bills.

Opportunity Hospital Out Up Days

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