Henri Nouwen Quotes

I know how hard it is to live your life with your wounds exposed to heal other people

Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.

She had discovered that the best remedy for heartache was trying to make herself useful to others.

Now Hillary Clinton and I are 'companeros de alma.' And we share this basic belief: it's simple. Do all the good you can and serve one another. Pretty simple.

The secret to greatness is in serving everyone else.

The root of happiness is altruism - the wish to be of service to others.

We can be of little service to our fellows until we become disillusioned without being embittered.

People, although having their own cross to carry, can minister to others through their own pain.

The best medicine for despair is service.

I feel, as a matter nearly of faith, that if you have known a certain amount of suffering and have emerged out of it into the light, you are obliged to share that light with as many of the still-beleaguered as possible.

That's what we're here on this Earth for, to help others.

We are surrounded by those in need of our attention, our encouragement, our support, our comfort, our kindness... We are the Lord’s hands here upon the earth, with the mandate to serve and to lift His children. He is dependent upon each of us

The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired.

This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others.

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements, but rather with the things we do for others

Time heals nothing — which should make us the better able to minister.

Be sensitive to the needs of those around you. Live as a healer. Lift the fallen, restore the broken, and encourage the discouraged.

In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.

Those who have suffered are best able to help those who are suffering.

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.

It helps me when I help people.

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.

That's why I wrote 'Fighter'. I have that need in me to help people. I am all about the underdog.

Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn't mean we have to wash each other's feet every day, but we must help one another.