Henri Nouwen
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
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There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Love is friendship set on fire.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Our love is here to stay.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
I know you are, but what am I ?
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Do what you love and the money will follow
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
Live with passion !
Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
This too, shall pass.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
The dedicated doctor knows that he must be both scientist and humanitarian, his most agonizing decisions lie in the field of human relations.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I keep getting older, they stay the same age.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Why don't you come up sometime and see me ?
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
You cannot live without dying. You cannot live if you do not die psychologically every minute. This is not an intellectual paradox. To live completely, wholly, every day as if it were a new loveliness, there must be dying to everything of yesterday, otherwise you live mechanically, and a mechanical mind can never know what love is or what freedom is.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
You don't understand ! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
There is no education like adversity.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Whatever our souls are made up, his and mine are the same.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so, but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Do you think that there is a word that contains all of the vowels? Unquestionably.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.