Henri Jayer Quotes

Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experience helpful. Let those who do not, seek their own kind. ~ Jean-Henri Fabre

Your only hope of satisfying others is in satisfying yourself. I speak of a great satisfaction, not a commercial satisfaction. ~ Robert Henri

When we give generously, with an abundance mentality, what we give away will multiply. ~ Henri Nouwen

You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work. ~ Robert Henri

Common sense is calculation applied to life. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

Turn your eyes whither you will, enter into whatever temple you please, you will find there on the very threshold Prophecy and Sacrament ... whoever despises these two things, infallibly bends towards earth, knowing nothing of God but his name, and holding with him no other relations than ingratitude and forgetfulness. ~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

The word is always a word for others. Words need to be heard. When we give words to what we are living, these words need to be received and responded to. A speaker needs a listener. A writer needs a reader.

When the flesh – the lived human experience – becomes word, community
can develop. When we say, 'Let me tell you what we saw. Come and listen
to what we did. Sit down and let me explain to you what happened to us.
Wait until you hear whom we met,' we call people together and make our
lives into lives for others. The word brings us together and calls us
into community. When the flesh becomes word, our bodies become part of
a body of people. ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen

Drawing is putting a line around an idea. ~ Henri Matisse

People declare as much, without, apparently, looking into the matter very closely. They seem able to dispense with the conscientious observer's scruples, when inflating their bladder of theory. ~ Jean-Henri Fabre

An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint. ~ Henri Matisse

The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes. ~ Jacques-Henri Lartigue

The elder brother compares himself with the younger one and becomes jealous. But the father loves them both so much that it didn't even occur to him to delay the party in order to prevent the elder son from feeling rejected. I am convinced that many of my emotional problems would melt as snow in the sun if I could let the truth of God's motherly non-comparing love permeate my heart. ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen

Those who do not run away from our pains but touch them with compassion bring healing and new strength. The paradox indeed is that the beginning of healing is in the solidarity with the pain. In ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen

Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God, our conscience, and ourselves. Tears, grieves, depressions, disappointments, irritations, good and evil thoughts, decisions, uncertainties, deliberations
all these belong to our secret, and are almost all incommunicable and intransmissible, even when we try to speak of them, and even when we write them down. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

Resentment and gratitude cannot coexist, since resentment blocks the perception and experience of life as a gift. My resentment tells me that I don't receive what I deserve. It always manifests itself in envy. ~ Henri Nouwen

To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. HENRI NOUWEN ~ Laura Petherbridge

Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole ... ~ Henri Matisse

We must ask ourselves how many times others would benefit more from our silence than from our words. ~ Henri Nouwen

When you're out of willpower, you can call on stubbornness. ~ Henri Matisse

If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science. ~ Henri Poincare

Do whatever you do intensely. ~ Robert Henri

Human contact wears things out with disheartening slowness. ~ Henri Barbusse

Writing is not just a job. It helps me to pray. It's a way of being. ~ Henri Nouwen

We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine. ~ Henri Barbusse

When suddenly you seem to lose all you thought you had gained, do not despair. You must expect setbacks and regressions. Don't say to yourself "All is lost. I have to start all over again." This is not true. What you have gained you have gained ... When you return to the the road, you return to the place where you left it, not to where you started. ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen

Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you. ~ Robert Henri

If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling. ~ Robert Henri

Educate yourself. Don't let me educate you ~ Robert Henri

Sometimes we do grip the concert in a human head, and so hold it that in a way we get a record of it into paint, but the vision and expressing of one day will not do for the next. ~ Robert Henri