A Quote by Henri Nouwen

In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.

Henri Nouwen

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Henri Nouwen
Dutch - Priest
January 24, 1932 - September 21, 1996

There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman

Coco Chanel

We are all human; therefore, nothing human can be alien to us.

Maya Angelou

We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it still with us.

Northrop Frye

I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.

Terence

The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore.

Emile M. Cioran

Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to me." That could be the motto of literature!

Julia Alvarez

If I am to be remembered, I hope it will not be primarily for my specialized scientific work, but as a generalist; one to whom, enlarging Terence's words, nothing human and nothing in external nature was alien.

Julian Huxley

Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.I am human: nothing human is alien to me.

Terence

For me parks are good when first of all, they're not impeccable, and when solitude has appropriated them in such a way that solitude itself becomes an emblem, a defining trait for walkers, sporadic at best, who in my opinion should be irrevocably lost or absorbed in thought, and a bit confused, too, as when one walks through a space that's at once alien and familiar.

Sergio Chejfec

Sartre is one example of someone who does just this. Every text is, after all, a human document and whatever Kierkegaard thought about God was clearly a matter of human thought that can, in principle, be retrieved and interpreted by other human beings. A phenomenological approach to religion must, it seems to me, adopt the old adage: nothing human is alien to me.

George Pattison

We all bear within us the potentiality for every kind of passion, every fate, every way of life. Nothing human is alien to us. If this were not so, we could not understand other people, either in life or in art. But inheritance and upbringing foster individual experiences and develop only a few of our thousands of possibilities. The others gradually sicken and die.

Max Reinhardt

Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects

Pablo Picasso

When we begin to look around us, to observe individuals and societies, and to study philosophies and religions, we realize that our loneliness is shared. Our solitude is plural, and our singularity is the similarity between us.

Tariq Ramadan

There is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable that human genius and skill do not aspire to realize.

William Godwin

Once you realize that human actions affect every bit of earth and sky, you realize that the environment isn't just what surrounds us - it's all one whole.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

Community always calls us back to solitude, and solitude always calls us to community. Community and solitude, both, are essential elements of ministry and witnessing.

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