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Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary line and adding to one's liberty. — Henri Frederic Amiel

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

As to my heart, since I have worn an eighty franc corset I do not hear it, and I am very much afraid that I have left it in one of Marcel's drawers. — Henri Murger

I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real. — Henri Nouwen

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self. — Henri Frederic Amiel

The Father's love does not force itself on the beloved. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness. — Henri Frederic Amiel

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

In God's eyes the most significant is often the most hidden. — Henri Nouwen

Youth is life's beautiful moment. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Of course it's all luck. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Why did you paint a couch in the middle of the jungle?"
Rousseau: "Because one has a right to paint one's dreams. — Henri Rousseau

My hope is that the description of God's love in my life will give you the freedom and the courage to discover ... God's love in yours. — Henri Nouwen

Yes, it's a competitive world, but where is your heart? — Henri Nouwen

I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my
relationship to photography. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

To ease another's burden, help to carry it. — Henri Bergson

One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

That's the temptation of the devil: "Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!" — Henri Nouwen

It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Christmas is believing that the salvation of the world is God's work, and not mine. — Henri Nouwen

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

Even if it doesn't sound like it at first, that's an identity that Europe can go out into the world with and take a leading role. — Bernard-Henri Levy

The conservatives want to revolutionize the world all at once. And that's a dangerous proposal. — Bernard-Henri Levy

Sometimes God wills for one of his children to experience human wickedness so that he will emerge stronger and nobler than ever. — Henri Charriere

To shun one's cross is to make it heavier. — Henri Frederic Amiel

The cafes bore me; going downstairs is a nuisance. Painting and sleeping - that's all there is. — Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

- How do you make your pictures?
- I don't know, it's not important. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Writing is not just a job. It helps me to pray. It's a way of being. — Henri Nouwen

Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting. — Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

A certain color tones you up. It's the concentration of timbres. — Henri Matisse

A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, "How did I do it?" The real artist's work is a surprise to himself. — Robert Henri

Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain. — Henri Matisse

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

It's quite simple. Death isn't what we think it is. It isn't life which ends but time which stops. — Henri Riviere

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art. — Henri Matisse

And that's about all any of us can really hope for, to die with our dignity, to die with honor and valor. To die knowing we did everything we could. — Pittacus Lore

Order is man's greatest need, and his true well-being. — Henri Frederic Amiel

These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper. — Henri Coanda

Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Jesus lived this joy of the Father's house to the full. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language. — Henri Delacroix

Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people. — Henri Nouwen

Love life's weariness leavens. — Henri Cazalis

God is there. God's light is there. God's forgiveness is there. God's boundless love is there. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

One of the greatest challenges of the spiritual life is to receive God's forgiveness. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

But I tell you, Henri, that every moment you steal from the present is a moment you have lost for ever. There's only now. — Jeanette Winterson

I'd never buy something, even if it's a great brand, that is a competitor to something I already own; that's insane. — Francois-Henri Pinault

All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one's faculties. — Robert Henri

Luxury hasn't been democratised; it's been globalised. — Francois-Henri Pinault

Whether I am the younger son or the elder son, God's only desire is to bring me home. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity. — Bernard-Henri Levy

It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty; they haven't learned everything and they know it. — Robert Henri

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

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illumination the fog that surround — Henri Matisse

Stop war? Impossible! There is no cure for the world's disease. — Henri Barbusse

Precisely where I feel my poverty is where I discover God's blessing. — Henri Nouwen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jesus' whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God's love. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

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

One must, of course, have one's entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct. — Henri Matisse

Order is a great person's need and their true well being. — Henri Frederic Amiel

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable. — Robert Henri

There's a strength to being able to look at products through a customer's eyes, but it is also dangerous. — Francois-Henri Pinault

The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling. — Henri Matisse

Henri IV's feet and armpits enjoyed an international reputation. — Aldous Huxley

If the artist's will is not strong he will see all kinds of unessential things. — Robert Henri

Maybe it's a reminder from Henri that you're supposed to rake the lawn. — Pittacus Lore

It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Darwin's theory of evolution pointed to the conclusion that flux (or becoming), not being, is the essence of reality. Though — Henri Bergson

Every game I played against Henri Richard, he'd come up to behind me at some point and say, 'My brother's better than your brother.' — Dennis Hull

Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature. — Henri Rousseau

There's no animal that sleep-deprives itself like the human. — Henri Cole

When you're out of willpower you call on stubbornness, that's the trick. — Henri Matisse

It's wonderful to be famous as long as you remain unknown. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

In Christ we live as God's beloved before we were born and after we have died; all the circumstances in between will not negate that. Jean — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Near the end of his life, Henri Matisse's preferred attire was evening wear,
by which I mean pajamas. — Holland Cotter

It's not sincereity, it is truth which frees us, because it transforms us. It tears us away from our inmost slavery. — Henri De Lubac

I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There's an elegance, just like in a bullfight. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

It's marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything! — Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power. — Henri Frederic Amiel