Henri Nouwen Quotes

If you want to be happy, be.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

The most important thing is never to forget to always have love in your heart.

One thing I don't believe I am at all is bitter.

I am learning to live, and to see beauty in everything.

Be the captain of your ship. Breathe and be grateful.

For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, and enemy is indispinsable. So we should be grateful to our enemies, for it is they who can best help us to develop a tranquil mind.

A grateful loving heart carries with it, under every parallel of latitude, the warmth and light of the tropics. It plants its Eden in the wilderness and solitary place, and sows with flowers the gray desolation of rock and mosses.

The grateful heart is not developed in a single moment; it is the result of a thousand choices.

Beauty is an understanding of what you have, and it's forgiving yourself of what you don't have, and appreciating all of it.

One thing that's certain: around the corner from every ugly thing, there's something really beautiful. If we stop at every bitter interaction; we'll never reach our destination.

My mom said there's a sunrise and a sunset every day and you can choose to be there or not. You can put yourself in the way of beauty.

I'm grateful to myself and those closest to me me for having given me that non-material base that means I'm a happy man, one who doesn't have to compete or engineer projects he doesn't have his heart in.

Teach them about anger, the sin that comes with dawning. Teach them about flowers, and the beauty of forgiveness.

In every moment we make a decision -- whether conscious or unconscious. Will I choose to open my heart, send love, withhold judgment and thus free myself from fear? Or will I close my heart, project fear instead of extending love, judge others, and thus bind myself to fear? The choice is mine and mine alone.

Today I forgive all those who have ever offended me. I give my love to all thirsty hearts, both to those who love me and to those who do not love me.

You have to forgive everybody. It's the best beauty treatment.

Forgiveness is a form of gratitude. When we forgive others, we show them the mercy that we have often received and been thankful for.

It's no wonder, that God's anxiety therapy includes a large, delightful dollop of gratitude. The anxious heart says, "Lord, if only I had this, that, or the other, I'd be okay." The grateful heart says, "Oh, look! You've already given me this, that, and the other. Thank you, God."

The moment you begin to worry about the things you want and the things you don’t have in life is the moment you will lose your gratitude... The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.

I have the choice to be angry at God for what i don't have, or be thankful for what i do have

"Why is everyone here so happy except me?" "Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master. "Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?" "Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside."

I am so grateful for my beautiful life. I am cherished and loved. And I share my love and joy with everyone.