Henri Nouwen Quotes

By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.

There's nothing more confirming in your life than looking in front of you and seeing some really amazing people who you care a lot about who care a lot about you.

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.

I really care about people around me, and I can't live without my family and friends.

To know you are among people whom you love, and who love you – that has made all the successes wonderful, much more wonderful than they'd have been anyway.

Build a little community of those you love and who love you

Everybody needs somebody.

To me, there's no greater reward than being around people you care about and can be present with.

Select your friendships carefully. Gather people around you who will reinforce your lifestyle.

My home is not a place, it is people.

Friendship is such an important thing to me, and I feel like the people who I love and help keep me whole - I can't imagine a life without them.

Sometimes it takes work to find a great group of friends whom you feel super comfortable and confident with.

I don't have any kids of my own, but I love my band, and I love the people I'm around and taking care of them.

I'm self-sufficient, but it's brilliant to have people in your life that you love, who love you and are important to you.

There is no more precious experience in life than friendship. And I am not forgetting love and marriage as I write this; the lovers, or the man and wife, who are not friends are but weakly joined together. One enlarges his circle of friends through contact with many people. One who limits those contacts narrows the circle and frequently his own point of view as well.

Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you.

What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed in there, regardless. It wasn't just about blood relations or shared chromosomes, but something wider, bigger. Cora was right - we had many families over time. Our family of origion, the family we created, as well as the gorups you moved thorugh while all of this was happening: friends, lovers, sometimes even strangers. None of them were perfect, and we couldn't expect them to be. You couldn't make any one person your world. The trick was to take what each could give you and build a world from it.

Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it.

Mother Theresa said it is not how much we give that is important but how much love you put into doing it. So it is not just how many units of housing we create or how good our health care system is, it is that people have someone to eat dinner with and that people have someone to hold their hand when they die. That is what we are called to do and it is the love of Christ. It is relationships.

Shower the people you love with love Show them the way that you feel Things are gonna work out fine if you only will.

I love my friends. They're my family.

I really like people and I keep friendships. I have people from all parts of my life.