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I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys.


Henri Nouwen

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HENRI ROUSSEAU A lot of momentum we are seeing is simply because we are offering choice.
HENRI RICHARD [Not surprisingly, AMD sees things differently.] It's clear the market is forcing Intel to respond t...
HENRI RICHARD Our technology alliance with the FIA demonstrates AMD's commitment to helping the world's leading or...
HENRI RICHARD It's difficult to predict what'll happen after that, but we'll work hard to keep our customer-centri...
HENRI RICHARD I was very enthusiastic about that. The Meier building was maybe not such a great place to show art....
HENRI LOYRETTE But the manager was right to take me off. I was tired after a bad week personally. I was upset about...
HENRI CAMARA We lacked a cutting edge at times but I thought we were worth more than a point and I think that's a...
HENRI CAMARA If you remove these lines in the painting, the colors are no longer effective.
HENRI ROUSSEAU 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 If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishe...
HENRI POINCARE He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.
HENRI MATISSE To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly
HENRI BERGSON In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.
HENRI LEFEBVRE Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.
HENRI QUEUILLE Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
HENRI POINCARE Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are...
HENRI MATISSE Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
HENRI POINCARE With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
HENRI MATISSE For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, ...
HENRI BERGSON Science is facts. Just as houses are made of stones, so science is made of facts. But a pile of st...
HENRI POINCARE I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
HENRI AMIEL Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence
HENRI AMIEL Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self comman...
HENRI AMIEL Work cures everything.
HENRI MATISSE The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that's laughable is vanity.
HENRI BERGSON If youth knew; if age could. -Henri Estienne.
HENRI ESTIENNE If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, l...
HENRI POINCARE Le savant doit ordonner ; on fait la science avec des faits comme une maison avec des pierres ; m...
HENRI POINCARé Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a scie...
HENRI POINCARE Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
HENRI BERGSON The body, by the place which at each moment it occupies in the universe, indicates the parts and the...
HENRI BERGSON Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence ...
HENRI BERGSON In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighb...
HENRI BERGSON Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization
HENRI BERGSON Aren't you [Tahiti Lagoons] one of the seven wonders of the Paradise of painters?
HENRI MATISSE Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything
HENRI POINCARE Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the usef...
HENRI POINCARE Exactitude is not truth.
HENRI MATISSE