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
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 myrelationship 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
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
Time wasted is a theft from God.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves. — Henri Frederic Amiel
We want to live as people chosen, blessed, and broken, and thus become food for the world. — Henri J.M. Nouwen
We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd. — Jean-Henri Fabre
Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind. — Henri Frederic Amiel
There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know. — Robert Henri
Human contact wears things out with disheartening slowness. — Henri Barbusse
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Our special task, as French Canadians, is to insert into America the spirit of Christian France. — Henri Bourassa
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
If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone. — Henri Matisse
Art is a barren route, of which glory is the oasis. — Henri Murger
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
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
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
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
Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving. — Henri Matisse
The bird's delirium does not interest the trees. — Henri Michaux
Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults. — Henri Nouwen
Precisely where I feel my poverty is where I discover God's blessing. — Henri Nouwen
Stop war? Impossible! There is no cure for the world's disease. — Henri Barbusse
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illumination the fog that surround — Henri Matisse
Jesus' whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God's love. — Henri J.M. Nouwen
Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power. — Henri Frederic Amiel
It's marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything! — Jacques-Henri Lartigue
I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There's an elegance, just like in a bullfight. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
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
Near the end of his life, Henri Matisse's preferred attire was evening wear, by which I mean pajamas. — Holland Cotter
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
It's wonderful to be famous as long as you remain unknown. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
When you're out of willpower you call on stubbornness, that's the trick. — Henri Matisse
There's no animal that sleep-deprives itself like the human. — Henri Cole
One must, of course, have one's entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct. — Henri Matisse
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
Darwin's theory of evolution pointed to the conclusion that flux (or becoming), not being, is the essence of reality. Though — Henri Bergson
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
Maybe it's a reminder from Henri that you're supposed to rake the lawn. — Pittacus Lore
If the artist's will is not strong he will see all kinds of unessential things. — Robert Henri
Henri IV's feet and armpits enjoyed an international reputation. — Aldous Huxley
The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling. — Henri Matisse
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 object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable. — Robert Henri
Order is a great person's need and their true well being. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature. — Henri Rousseau
Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art. — Henri Matisse
Writing is not just a job. It helps me to pray. It's a way of being. — Henri Nouwen
- How do you make your pictures? - I don't know, it's not important. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
The cafes bore me; going downstairs is a nuisance. Painting and sleeping - that's all there is. — Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
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
One of the greatest challenges of the spiritual life is to receive God's forgiveness. — Henri J.M. Nouwen
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
The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity. — Bernard-Henri Levy
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
Whether I am the younger son or the elder son, God's only desire is to bring me home. — Henri J.M. Nouwen
Luxury hasn't been democratised; it's been globalised. — 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
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
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
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
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
God is there. God's light is there. God's forgiveness is there. God's boundless love is there. — Henri J.M. Nouwen
Love life's weariness leavens. — Henri Cazalis
Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people. — Henri Nouwen
The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language. — Henri Delacroix
Jesus lived this joy of the Father's house to the full. — Henri J.M. Nouwen
Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper. — Henri Coanda
Order is man's greatest need, and his true well-being. — Henri Frederic Amiel
It's quite simple. Death isn't what we think it is. It isn't life which ends but time which stops. — Henri Riviere
