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I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our sol...
HENRI BARBUSSE Es la imagen más pura de la mujer amada: la que aún no conocemos totalmente, la que se revelará, ...
HENRI BARBUSSE Mais, j’aurai beau supplier, j’aurai beau me révolter, il n’y aura plus rien pour moi ; je n...
HENRI BARBUSSE I see too deep and too much.
HENRI BARBUSSE Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.
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I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need ...
HENRI NOUWEN

The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world ...
HENRI NOUWEN

The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don't see...
HENRI NOUWEN

When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defen...
HENRI NOUWEN

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no ...
HENRI NOUWEN

Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that some...
HENRI NOUWEN

God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and pa...
HENRI NOUWEN

The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.
HENRI NOUWEN

Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are wait...
HENRI NOUWEN

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.
HENRI NOUWEN

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
HENRI MATISSE These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper.
HENRI COANDA

It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all tha...
HENRI POINCARE

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
HENRI BERGSON

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
HENRI MATISSE

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to th...
ROBERT HENRI

One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create ...
HENRI NOUWEN Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
HENRI ROUSSEAU

Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a ...
HENRI NOUWEN Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no mor...
HENRI POINCAR

Ministers are powerless people who have nothing to boast of except their weaknesses. But when the Lo...
HENRI NOUWEN

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that's laughable is vanity.
HENRI BERGSON

If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, l...
HENRI POINCARE If youth knew; if age could. -Henri Estienne.
HENRI ESTIENNE

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it ...
HENRI NOUWEN

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.
HENRI MATISSE

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
HENRI MATISSE

Creativity takes courage.
HENRI MATISSE

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the es...
HENRI MATISSE

To pray, I think, does not mean to think about God in contrast to thinking about other things, or to...
HENRI NOUWEN

Praying is no easy matter. It demands a relationship in which you allow someone other than yourself ...
HENRI NOUWEN

Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing so...
HENRI NOUWEN

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes...
HENRI POINCARé In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firm...
HENRI MATISSE He who thinks that he is finished is finished. How true. Those who think that they have arrived, hav...
HENRI NOUWEN The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.
HENRI DELACROIX There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by ...
HENRI BERGSON Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
HENRI BERGSON To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly
HENRI BERGSON To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense wit...
HENRI POINCARE The world is waiting ... for new saints, ecstatic men and women who are so deeply rooted in the love...
HENRI NOUWEN Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires ...
HENRI NOUWEN Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form...
HENRI BERGSON To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perce...
HENRI BERGSON The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the ...
HENRI BERGSON The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
HENRI BERGSON Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.
HENRI BECQUEREL Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.
HENRI ALAIN An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call i...
HENRI BERGSON A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new...
ROBERT HENRI The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from w...
HENRI LEFEBVRE In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.
HENRI LEFEBVRE Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
HENRI MATISSE What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing sub...
HENRI MATISSE Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.
HENRI QUEUILLE If youth knew; if age could.
HENRI ESTIENNE Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
HENRI NOUWEN It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
HENRI MATISSE The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
HENRI BERGSON There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at ...
HENRI MATISSE Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
ROBERT HENRI What I dream of is an art of balance.
HENRI MATISSE Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of ston...
HENRI POINCARE To give someone a blessing is the most significant affirmation we can offer.
HENRI NOUWEN As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the ...
HENRI NOUWEN I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This...
HENRI COANDA The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to...
HENRI NOUWEN You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for dri...
HENRI MATISSE It seems that laughter needs an echo.
HENRI BERGSON It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
HENRI POINCARE He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.
HENRI MATISSE To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.
HENRI NOUWEN There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
HENRI MATISSE Our inclination is to show our Lord only what we feel comfortable with. But the more we dare to reve...
HENRI NOUWEN When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it...
HENRI NOUWEN Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
HENRI POINCARE Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
HENRI MATISSE Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us...
HENRI NOUWEN An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepar...
HENRI MATISSE Jazz is rhythm and meaning.
HENRI MATISSE Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very groun...
HENRI NOUWEN For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be domi...
HENRI NOUWEN It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used desc...
HENRI MATISSE Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis a...
HENRI NOUWEN Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did ...
HENRI NOUWEN Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving.
HENRI MATISSE A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't ...
HENRI MATISSE Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and close...
HENRI NOUWEN When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perce...
HENRI BERGSON Le savant doit ordonner ; on fait la science avec des faits comme une maison avec des pierres ; m...
HENRI POINCARé All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
ROBERT HENRI I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on b...
HENRI MATISSE Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
HENRI BERGSON Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the expe...
HENRI NOUWEN Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering...
HENRI NOUWEN What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subje...
HENRI MATISSE If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we r...
HENRI POINCARE Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.
HENRI BERGSON Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
HENRI BERGSON The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, bu...
HENRI NOUWEN The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tensi...
HENRI NOUWEN The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual ...
HENRI NOUWEN The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward i...
HENRI NOUWEN The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an...
HENRI NOUWEN Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we h...
HENRI NOUWEN In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main way...
HENRI NOUWEN I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor.
HENRI MATISSE Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to k...
HENRI POINCARE The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam...
HENRI PIRENNE The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, a...
HENRI POINCARE If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishe...
HENRI POINCARE Work cures everything.
HENRI MATISSE A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of fo...
HENRI POINCARE To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing t...
HENRI NOUWEN To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense ...
HENRI POINCARE Science is facts. Just as houses are made of stones, so science is made of facts. But a pile of st...
HENRI POINCARE Feast of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 A great many of those about me would be im...
HENRI PERRIN To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
HENRI AMIEL Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surren...
HENRI AMIEL A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith ensla...
HENRI AMIEL I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
HENRI AMIEL Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent t...
HENRI AMIEL Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence
HENRI AMIEL For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of wil...
HENRI AMIEL Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
HENRI AMIEL Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self comman...
HENRI AMIEL We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
HENRI AMIEL For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, ...
HENRI BERGSON Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
HENRI POINCARE To invent is to discern, to choose.
HENRI POINCARE Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from G...
HENRI NOUWEN The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, a...
HENRI POINCARE If youth only knew: if age only could.
HENRI ESTIENNE Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
HENRI MATISSE The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -Henri Bergson.
HENRI BERGSON Do whatever you do intensely.
ROBERT HENRI Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
HENRI BERGSON Action on the move creates its own route; creates to a very great extent the conditions under which ...
HENRI BERGSON There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.
ROBERT HENRI Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are...
HENRI MATISSE There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he...
HENRI MATISSE If youth but knew; if age but could.
HENRI ESTIENNE Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
HENRI POINCARE What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing sub...
HENRI MATISSE Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought.
HENRI BERGSON Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
HENRI BERGSON Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no ...
HENRI NOUWEN When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to ...
HENRI ROUSSEAU In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firm...
HENRI MATISSE Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.
HENRI NOUWEN Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other b...
HENRI NOUWEN When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realiz...
HENRI NOUWEN Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
HENRI POINCARE The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs.
HENRI PIRENNE The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may ...
HENRI PIRENNE If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.
HENRI ROUSSEAU An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
HENRI BERGSON One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead ...
HENRI NOUWEN I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
HENRI MATISSE I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all...
HENRI MATISSE Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures...
HENRI MATISSE An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
HENRI-FREDERIC • When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventiv...
ROBERT HENRI Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
ROBERT HENRI Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is...
ROBERT HENRI If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we co...
HENRI POINCARE Hypotheses are what we lack the least.
HENRI POINCARE In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighb...
HENRI BERGSON The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.
HENRI MURGER I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.
HENRI MATISSE Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?
HENRI POINCARE Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and ...
HENRI NOUWEN Mathematicians are born, not made.
HENRI POINCARE Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.
HENRI POINCARE A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.
ROBERT HENRI We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky ...
HENRI MATISSE You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests.' It certainly is not easy to hear that voice in a world f...
HENRI NOUWEN Quando alguém tem força para vencer a si mesmo, nasceu para grandes empreendimentos.
HENRI LACORDAIRE Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence ...
HENRI BERGSON Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
HENRI BERGSON In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole ...
HENRI BERGSON There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
HENRI BERGSON Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
HENRI BERGSON The motive power of democracy is love
HENRI BERGSON The body, by the place which at each moment it occupies in the universe, indicates the parts and the...
HENRI BERGSON In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.
HENRI NOUWEN It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.
ROBERT HENRI I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.
ROBERT HENRI Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence ...
HENRI BERGSON Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a scie...
HENRI POINCARE Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to ...
HENRI POINCARE Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the usef...
HENRI POINCARE Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of ston...
HENRI POINCAR L’art de vivre consiste en un subtil mélange entre lâcher prise et tenir bon.
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