Sessou Henri Quotes

The measure of your solitude is the measure of your capacity for communion. ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen

The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world. ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

We have too much technological
progress, life is too hectic, and our society has only one goal: to invent
still more technological marvels to make life even easier and better.
The craving for every new scientific discovery breeds a hunger for
greater comfort and the constant struggle to achieve it. All that kills the
soul, kills compassion, understanding, nobility. It leaves no time for
caring what happens to other people, least of all criminals. Even the
officials in Venezuela's remote areas are better for they're also
concerned with public peace. It gives them many headaches, but they
seem to believe that bringing about a man's salvation is worth the
effort. I find that magnificent. ~ Henri Charriere

I have been no more than a medium, as it were. ~ Henri Matisse

Spite is anger which is afraid to show itself, it is an impotent fury conscious of its impotence. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

I see too deep and too much. ~ Henri Barbusse

Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

There's no animal that sleep-deprives itself like the human. ~ Henri Cole

The great spiritual task facing me is to so fully trust that I belong to God that I can be free in the world
free to speak even when my words are not received; free to act even when my actions are criticized, ridiculed, or considered useless ... I am convinced that I will truly be able to love the world when I fully believe that I am loved far beyond its boundaries. ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen

Exactitude is not truth. ~ Henri Matisse

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics. ~ Henri Poincare

When the motives of artists are profound, when they are at their work as a result of deep consideration, when they believe in the importance of what they are doing, their work creates a stir in the world. ~ Robert Henri

They ask only one question: "what is pleasing to the Spirit of God?" And as soon as they have heard the sound of the Spirit in the silence and solitude of their hearts, they follow its promptings even if it upsets their friends, disrupts their environment, and confuses their admirers. ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen

It's marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything! ~ Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Hope is willing to leave unanswered questions unanswered and unknown futures unknown. Hope makes you see God's guiding hand not only in the gentle and pleasant moments but also in the shadows of disappointment and darkness. ~ Henri Nouwen

Joy and laughter are the gifts of living in the presence of God and trusting that tomorrow is not worth worrying about. ~ Henri Nouwen

The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

What is Hope?Hope is that inner dynamic that compels us to explore and pursue the expectations built into the human condition. Hope was born the day the first human beings discovered the first bridge and decided not to jump off the bridge in despair, but to cross it ~ Henri Nouwen

Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

Models are to be used, not believed. ~ Henri Theil

Here is a home for you; maybe you need us. All my desires to be useful, successful, and productive revolted. ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen

Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn't build upon hatred, but upon love. ~ Henri Matisse

Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes forever the precise and transitory instant. We photographers deal in things that are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished, there is no contrivance on earth that can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory. The writer has time to reflect. He can accept and reject, accept again; and before committing his thoughts to paper he is able to tie the several relevant elements together. There is also a period when his brain "forgets," and his subconscious works on classifying his thoughts. But for photographers, what has gone is gone forever. ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following. ~ Henri Poincare

Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

Christ invites us to remain in touch with the many sufferings of every day and to taste the beginning of hope and new life right there, where we live amid our hurts and pains and brokenness. ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen

We can be unhappy about many things, but jy can still be there ... It is important to become aware that at every moment of our life we have an opportunity to choose joy ... It is in the choice that our true freedom lies, and that freedom is, in the final analysis, the freedom to love. ~ Henri Nouwen

[People] want me to finish things. But I see them in such a way and paint them accordingly ... Nothing is simpler than to complete pictures in a superficial sense. Never does one lie so cleverly as then. ~ Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

Prayer is often considered a weakness, a support system, which is used when we can no longer help ourselves. But this is only true when the God of our prayers is created in our own image and adapted to our own needs and concerns. When, however, prayer makes us reach out to God, not on our own but on his terms, then prayer pulls us away from self-preoccupations, encourages us to leave familiar ground, and challenges us to enter into a new world which cannot be contained within the narrow boundaries of our mind or heart. ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. ~ Henri Bergson

It is hard to bear with people who stand still along the way, lose heart, and seek their happiness in little pleasures which they cling to ... You feel sad about all that self-indulgence and self-satisfaction, for you know with an indestructible certainty that something greater is coming. ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen

You see, my mind takes me far,
but my heart dreams of return. ~ Henri Cole

When we keep claiming the light, we will find ourselves becoming more and more radiant. ~ Henri Nouwen

When you have got quite alone, sit down and be lonely…fold your hands in your lap, and be still. Do not try to think anything… by and by, it may be, you will begin to know something of nature. Nature will soon speak to you, or not until, as Henri Vaughn says, some veil be broken in you ~ George MacDonald

The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words "too late" ringing in our ears. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

But since the time of Leibnitz, it is hard to find philosophers who stress relatedness in any way. There is Henri Bergson, and before him the romantics, and Marx with his talk of the brotherhood of revolution, and Martin Buber with his I and Thou, but by and large modern philosophy is about aloneness. We are forlorn, abandoned. ~ Stuart Miller

Of course it's all luck. ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment. ~ Robert Henri

Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace. ~ Jean-Henri Fabre

How can we embrace poverty as a way to God when everyone around us wants to become rich? Poverty has many forms. We have to ask ourselves: 'What is my poverty?' Is it lack of money, lack of emotional stability, lack of a loving partner, lack of security, lack of safety, lack of self-confidence? Each human being has a place of poverty. That's the place where God wants to dwell! 'How blessed are the poor,' Jesus says (Matthew 5:3). This means that our blessing is hidden in our poverty.
We are so inclined to cover up our poverty and ignore it that we often miss the opportunity to discover God, who dwells in it. Let's dare to see our poverty as the land where our treasure is hidden. ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen

Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

Men do not sufficiently realize
that their future is in their own hands.
Theirs is the task of determining first of all whether they want to go on living or not.
Theirs is the responsibility, then, for deciding if they want merely to live,
or intend to make just the extra effort required
for fulfilling, even on this refractory planet,
the essential function of the universe,
which is a machine for the making of gods. ~ Henri Bergson