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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Baruch Spinoza
Wisdom
Hope
Fear
Without
Nor
Cannot
Education is the key solution for change, for peace, and for help in the fight against racism and discrimination in general.
Clarence Seedorf
Education
Change
Peace
Fight
Racism
Key
Solution
General
Discrimination
Against
Help
I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.
Famke Janssen
Work
Great
You
Disappointment
People
Try
Sets
High
High Expectations
Talented
Because
Accomplished
Up
Expectations
Just
Who
Actor
The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.
Henri Nouwen
Love
Me
Gratitude
Joy
Gift
Discipline
Given
Am
Celebrated
Effort
Acknowledge
Explicit
Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.
Henri Nouwen
Great
Enemy
Fear
Other
Intimacy
Great Enemy
Run
True
Makes
Does
Cling
Us
Create
Each
Away
One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead you closer to the Lord. Natural hypersensitivity can become an asset; it makes you aware of your need to be with people and it allows you to be more willing to look at their needs.
Henri Nouwen
Beautiful
Needs
Spiritual
You
Natural
People
Most Beautiful
Insecurity
Become
Ways
Willing
More
Take
Lead
Look
Most
Makes
Lord
Closer
Formation
Place
Your
Aware
Asset
Need
God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.
Henri Nouwen
God
Easy
Joyful
Always
Hard
Painful
Moment
Present
Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.
Henri Nouwen
Love
Leadership
People
Power
Healthy
Control
Christian
Relationships
Intimate
Unable
Give
Develop
Instead
Know
Most
How
Been
Who
Many
Receive
It's like everything in football - and life. You need to look, you need to think, you need to move, you need to find space, you need to help others. It's very simple in the end.
Johan Cruyff
Life
You
Simple
Space
Help Others
Think
Others
Everything
Find
Football
Like
Look
End
Very
Move
In The End
Help
Need
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
M. C. Escher
Me
Impossible
Achieve
Will
Think
Those
Only
Attempt
Absurd
Check
Go
Upstairs
Who
Basement
Climate change is sometimes misunderstood as being about changes in the weather. In reality it is about changes in our very way of life.
Paul Polman
Life
Change
Reality
Sometimes
Weather
Changes
Our
Way
About
Climate
Misunderstood
Climate Change
Very
Being
The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.
Rem Koolhaas
Acceptance
Lead
Idealism
Breakthroughs
Realities
Certain
Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary.
Rem Koolhaas
Hope
Trend
Will
Become
Cities
Never
Almost
Still
Were
Dominated
Asia
Declining
European
Skyscrapers
Necessary
You know, sometimes you're jealous of other people and their achievements, and you wanna be that person, but I've come to realize that each individual on this planet has his own path.
Armin van Buuren
Jealous
You
People
Sometimes
Path
Own
Other
Individual
Come
Know
His
Person
Achievements
Wanna
Realize
Planet
Each
Each Individual
A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
Bas Rutten
Champion
No-One
True
Exhaustion
Sweats
Who
Watching
In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.
Desiderius Erasmus
Man
King
Country
Blind
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
Desiderius Erasmus
Overcome
Out
Habit
Driven
Nail
Another
The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.
Frans de Waal
Religion
Science
Enemy
Reflection
Thought
Shapes
True
Dogma
Curiosity
Endless
Substitution
Forms
Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.
Henri Nouwen
God
Home
Prayer
Our
Way
Most
Make
Concrete
Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.
Henri Nouwen
God
Broken
Care
Blessed
Say
Those
He
Himself
Said
Where
Loves
Poor
Us
Communion
Who
Deeper
Deeply
Jesus
A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.
Henri Nouwen
Life
Lonely
Destructive
Without
Becomes
Quiet
Center
Place
The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.
Henri Nouwen
Love
Myself
Journey
About
Allowing
Longer
Proved
Than
Loved
Realised
Much
Teaching
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
Time
Spiritual
People
Stronger
Important
Sense
Increasing
Our
Our Time
Crisis
Able
Spirit
Struggles
Emotional
Journeys
Most
Integrate
The Most Important
Where
Places
Grow
Need
Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.
Max Euwe
Thought
Strategy
Tactics
Observation
Require
Requires
Our political leaders have great responsibilities, but as with many situations in life, people often rise or fall to meet your expectations. Our responsibility as citizens is to expect our leaders to lead and to give them enough support so that they may do so.
Paul Polman
Life
Great
People
Political
Responsibility
Fall
Enough
Meet
Our
Responsibilities
Citizens
Rise
Give
Lead
Leaders
Support
Political Leaders
Expect
Expectations
May
Often
Situations
Them
Your
Many
I'm just cruising, doing me, having a good time and focusing on getting better.
Alistair Overeem
Time
Good
Me
Better
Good Time
Focusing
Having
Having A Good Time
Doing
Getting
Getting Better
Just
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