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There's nothing clinically wrong with me, only an emotional imbalance - I pass too quickly from the wildest enthusiasm to the blackest despair. — Henri Matisse

A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Jesus changes our history from a random series of sad incidents and accidents into a constant opportunity for a change of heart. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

When we respect the nude, we will no longer have any shame about it. — Robert Henri

To invent is to discern, to choose. — Henri Poincare

The word that seems best to summarize the desire of the human heart is 'communion.' ... wherever we look it is communion that we seek. — Henri Nouwen

The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness. — Henri Matisse

Becoming a child is living the Beatitudes and so finding the narrow gate into the Kingdom. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Emit gratitude as though it was done — Henri J.M. Nouwen

It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art. — Henri Matisse

coming home" meant, for me, walking step by step toward the One who awaits me with open arms and wants to hold me in an eternal embrace. I — Henri J.M. Nouwen

There is within you a lamb and a lion. Spiritual maturity is the ability to let lamb and lion lie down together. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

The farther the outward journey takes you, the deeper the inward journey must be. — Henri Nouwen

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes. — Henri Frederic Amiel

There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace. — Jean-Henri Fabre

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera ... they are made with the eye, heart and head. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

The only substance properly so called is the soul. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn. — Henri Bergson

Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds. — Henri La Fontaine

Time wasted is a theft from God. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Our life is ... a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment. — Henri Nouwen

The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things. — Henri Frederic Amiel

ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action. — Henri Bergson

Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God. — Henri Nouwen

As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer. — Henri Nouwen

Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth. — Henri Frederic Amiel

I trust in you, Lord, but keep helping me in my moments of distrust and doubt. — Henri Nouwen

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties. — Henri Frederic Amiel

People are machines of forgetfulness — Henri Barbusse

The mere ambition to write a poem is enough to kill it. — Henri Michaux

The bird's delirium does not interest the trees. — Henri Michaux

A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter. — Robert Henri

truly accepting love, forgiveness, and healing is often much harder than giving it. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision. — Robert Henri

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back. — Henri Matisse

Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Thus, our brokenness can become a gateway to new life. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them. — Henri Frederic Amiel

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage. — Henri Matisse

Words and phrases grew only slowly — Henri Cole

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Do not hesitate to love and to love deeply. — Henri Nouwen

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa. — Henri Poincare

Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults. — Henri Nouwen

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought. — Henri Matisse

What we call little things are merely the causes of great things. — Henri Frederic Amiel

God accomplishes his designs unknown even to those whom he employs as his instruments. — Jean-Henri Merle D'Aubigne

When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Wherever God is adored, he is adored in virtue of a supernatural doctrine; wherever he is despised, he is despised in the name of nature and reason. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Doubt is the accomplice of tyranny. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Christian community is the place where we keep the flame of hope alive among us and take it seriously so that it can grow and become stronger in us. — Henri Nouwen

Good families always ritualize the table. You can say, "This is a Christmas meal; this is a birthday meal." — Henri Nouwen

Becoming like the heavenly Father is not just one important aspect of Jesus' teaching, it is the very heart of his message. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Art is a barren route, of which glory is the oasis. — Henri Murger

All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it. — Robert Henri

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend. — Henri Nouwen

Grateful people learn to celebrate even amid life's hard and harrowing memories because they know that pruning is no mere punishment, but preparation. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it. — Henri Matisse

The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines. — Henri Murger

You weren't born by yourself. — Henri Cole

Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey. — Henri Nouwen

A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter ... — Henri Matisse

Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty. — Henri Poincare

You can only seek God when you have already found God. The desire for God's unconditional love is the fruit of having been touched by that love. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him. — Robert Henri

If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone. — Henri Matisse

when God created man and woman in his own image, he saw that "it was very good," and, despite the dark voices, no man or woman can ever change that. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Our special task, as French Canadians, is to insert into America the spirit of Christian France. — Henri Bourassa

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Human contact wears things out with disheartening slowness. — Henri Barbusse

There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know. — Robert Henri

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind. — Henri Frederic Amiel

We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd. — Jean-Henri Fabre

We want to live as people chosen, blessed, and broken, and thus become food for the world. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves. — Henri Frederic Amiel

The question is precisely to know whether the past has ceased to exist, or ceased to be useful ... — Henri Bergson

Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving. — Henri Matisse

How can I defend myself against what I want? — Henri Cole

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment. — Henri Bergson

How is an error possible in mathematics? — Henri Poincare

When I look through God's eyes at my lost self and discover God's joy at my coming home, then my life may become less anguished and more trusting. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE — Henri Frederic Amiel

You want me to be killed? Why are you taking away my knife? I guess you realize you're sending me to my grave? — Henri Charriere

I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so. — Jacques-Henri Lartigue

A revolution that does not produce a new space has not realized its full potential — Henri Lefebvre

The mind is an activity, not a repository. — Jean-Henri Fabre

Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words. — Henri Bergson

Like something abstract deep within us- — Henri Cole

spattering the walls with pulp and guano, like graffiti artists. — Henri Cole

The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course. — Henri Bergson

The truly original artist invents his own signs. — Henri Matisse

The wall around the window does not create two worlds. — Henri Matisse

Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

What philosophy has lacked most of all is precision. — Henri Bergson

We are called to witness, always with our lives and sometimes with our words, to the great things God has done for us. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

the butterflies that had just hatched hurried into the light to find love as — Henri Charriere