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There is no blue without yellow and without orange. Vincent Van Gogh
Without Yellow Orange Blue
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. Baruch Spinoza
Motivational Wax Indignant Weep Understand
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
God Spiritual People Say People Say About Daughters Sons Identity Us Means Beloved
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. Baruch Spinoza
Learning Human Being Free Understanding Attain Highest Because Understand Human Being Activity
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. Desiderius Erasmus
Reality People World Face Some People Live Other Those Dream Dream World Some Face Reality Turn Then Who
Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other. Henri Nouwen
Alone Time Solitude Community Busy Other Our Spend Intimacy Directly Potentially Write Simply Study Opened Read Pray Very Quiet Quiet Time Interact Whenever Where Different Which Places Ground Each Away Deeper Lives Grows
The way to know life is to love many things. Vincent Van Gogh
Life Love Way Know To Love Many Things
People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language. Afrojack
You Reality People Language Pretentious Sense See Someone Feel Because Fake Being Body Realness Body Language Need
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. Desiderius Erasmus
Buy Food Money Clothes Books Left Get Any Little Little Money
It's always about the music, never about anything else. Eddie Van Halen
Music Else About Never Always Anything Anything Else
Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling? M. C. Escher
You Also Sure Ceiling Really Floor
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. Vincent Van Gogh
Better Mistakes Too Though More Makes Narrow-Minded Than Prudent Even
One must work and dare if one really wants to live. Vincent Van Gogh
Work Live Dare Must Wants Really
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again. Vincent Van Gogh
Me Knowledge Mistakes Making Mistakes Fall Own My Own Only Making Up Get Cannot Again Even Keep
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance. Baruch Spinoza
Man Reality Become Imagination Vain Pleasing Easily He Come Himself Pass Proud May Universal Nuisance Imagine
Your library is your paradise. Desiderius Erasmus
Library Paradise Your
Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure. Henri Nouwen
Silence Words Listening Somewhere Lose Distance Longer Know Heals Without Cure Closeness Cannot Meaning Speaking
To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship. Henri Nouwen
Patience Every Learn Against Rebel Hardship
The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now. Henri Nouwen
Life Future Enemies Past Real Life Our Backward Unpredictable Takes Real Place Us Ifs Forward Now Here Pull
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them. Baruch Spinoza
Hate Laugh Weep Understand Nor Human Human Actions Them Actions
Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. Corrie Ten Boom
Prayer Burden Made Too Small Concern Any Turned
Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on. Henri Nouwen
Life Spiritual You Discipline Space Somewhere Everything Something Spiritual Life Prevent Counted Occupied Up Being Happen Which Create Means Planned Your Certainly Preoccupied Filled
For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved. Henri Nouwen
Women People Men Only Countries Ideologies Imposed Women And Men Dominated Children Loved Conquered Jesus
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way. Vincent Van Gogh
Soul Sit Way See Only No-One Blazing Smoke Passers-By Came Continue Hearth May Chimney Ever
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. Vincent Van Gogh
Life Soul Own Derives Painter Paintings
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. Baruch Spinoza
Made Understand Ceaseless Scorn Effort Human Human Actions Them Actions Ridicule
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