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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.
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Henri Nouwen

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The spiritual life is a reaching out to our innermost self, to our fellow human and to our God.
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Henri Nouwen

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Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved.
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Henri Nouwen

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I kept running around it in large or small circles, always looking for someone or something able to convince me of my Belovedness. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved". Being the Beloved expresses the core truth of our existence.
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Henri Nouwen

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Simply being with someone is difficult because it asks of us that we share in the other's vulnerability, enter with him or her into the experience of weakness and powerlessness, become part of the uncertainty, and give up control and self-determination.
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Henri Nouwen

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Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.
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Henri Nouwen

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Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.
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Henri Nouwen

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A little criticism makes me angry, and a little rejection makes me depressed. A little praise raises my spirits, and a little success excites me. It takes very little to raise me up or thrust me down. Often I am like a small boat on the ocean, completely at the mercy of its waves. All the time and energy I spend in keeping some kind of balance and preventing myself from being tipped over and drowning shows my life is mostly a struggle for survival: not a holy struggle, but an anxious struggle resulting from the mistaken idea that it is the world that defines me.
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Henri Nouwen

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Hiddenness is the place of purification. In hiddenness we find our true selves.
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Henri Nouwen

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Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings. The beauty of listening is that those who are listened to start feeling accepted, start taking our words more seriously and discovering their true selves.
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Henri Nouwen

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My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?
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Alice Walker

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Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.

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Real beauty is to be true to oneself.

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People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

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I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.
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Alice Walker

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There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.
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Alice Walker

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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
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Alice Walker

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“I understood for the first time that I didn't understand what I thought I understood”
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John Donne

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“Where I went in my travels, it's impossible for me to recall. I remember the sights and sounds and smells clearly enough, but the names of the towns are gone, as well as any sense of the order in which I traveled from place to place.”
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John Donne

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I would not give up my eyelash curler.
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Hannah Brown

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I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
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Henny Youngman

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I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.
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Henny Youngman

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Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable.
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Nick Hornby

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'Saving Grace' was a full stretch-out - literally, physically, spiritually, psychologically. And I needed to take a year-and-a-half off when it was over.
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Holly Hunter

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Sometimes you have to marinate instead of making a quick decision. I appreciate my instincts, but my instincts can be dead wrong. Circumspection can give you time.
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Holly Hunter

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People have always searched for answers. That's why we have religion; people have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality.
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Holly Hunter

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I love wearing wigs because they're instantly transformational.
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Holly Hunter

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'Top Of The Lake' is a great story with a beginning, and a middle and an end, about darkness - it's like the heart of darkness. And everybody has got one. When I was reading it, I couldn't put it down, and I wanted to know what was going to happen next.
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Holly Hunter

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It's always been my way to move about a little more horizontally. My career has never been like a shooting star.
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Holly Hunter

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I can very much enjoy taking a year off. Whereas some people would feel crippled by that, I can feel enlarged by it. And then I also like to work nonstop, maybe for a year-and-a-half, and then take a year off.
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Holly Hunter

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I think Ada in 'The Piano' is the most interior character I've ever had the chance to play, either on the stage or in anything I've done for film or TV.
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Holly Hunter

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I don't mind at all venturing off to do a television movie if it's gonna give me something new to mess around in my mind, to turn around in.
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Holly Hunter

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I don't believe in angels, and I'm not a religious person.
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Holly Hunter

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What is God, and how do you believe in him - how do you not believe? It's a question the world continues to tussle with. People's beliefs get them in a lot of conflicts.
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Holly Hunter

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I've always had to move between a couple of years of unemployment, where offers are not provocative enough to take, and seasons where I work nonstop for a year. It's always been an erratic rhythm.
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Holly Hunter

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Feature films seem geared toward very large budgets, action, broad comedy. That seems to dominate all year where it used to be relegated to summer.
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Holly Hunter

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After 'Broadcast News,' I could have played that same part, but I didn't want to. So I didn't follow it up with a hit.
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Holly Hunter

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A play is a hard thing, particularly in L.A. It's less expensive than in New York, but there's also less of a commitment to people doing plays than in New York. So it's a strange battle.
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Holly Hunter

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I don't make decisions just on the character I'm supposed to play. Sometimes it's based on the director, sometimes it's based on the story, sometimes I need money, or sometimes I'm just starved to work.
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Holly Hunter

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What people have thought of me, of the turns that I've taken, has never really played into my decisions.
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Holly Hunter

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There were so many lead roles available when I was in my thirties. Once I hit 45, there was a real downturn. But I got an incredibly provocative, delicious lead role in a television series called 'Saving Grace,' and I loved the character.
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Holly Hunter

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Helen Mirren is, I think, one of the fascinating actresses. Period. She captivates people and has tremendous power and charisma because she has never cashed in on being an exquisite beauty, even though I think she is. I can't say I'm anything like her, but I hope something similar will happen with me.
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Holly Hunter

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People think I disappear sporadically, but I just do projects that don't get international acclaim.
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Holly Hunter

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Characters never live with me in film the way they do on stage, and they have certain ramifications that movies just never have.
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Holly Hunter

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In my real life, I see people who are really enjoying their lives - I mean, really enjoying their lives - and they take joy in their daily obligations; they just do. And I believe that at a certain point, you've got to choose to be that way. You choose to approach your life that way. Or it's all kind of a drag until Friday.
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Holly Hunter

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It's a fantastic mirror to us to engage with art, to engage with paintings that are about tragedy, to go see Shakespearean comedies, to read a Greek play... We have always investigated the lightness and darkness of the human soul, in all these forms. So why not do it on television?
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Holly Hunter

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Crazy people are my people? Really? I think that's silly. That's another one of those pigeonhole things. Lay somebody on an ironing board and put a scalding hot iron on them, get that going real good: 'Oh, this is who Holly Hunter is.'
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Holly Hunter

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As an actor, I always like some tension, some distance, between me and the character I'm playing.
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Holly Hunter

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