Henri Nouwen
Theologian, Author
"Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place."
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Hospitality
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Esther Williams
Actress
"I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers"
Paul McCartney
Musician, Singer-songwriter
"It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Political Activist, Diplomat
"True hospitality consists of giving the best of yourself to your guests."
June Carter Cash
Singer, Songwriter
"For the last 20 months, I've just been going from one hospital to another."
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"Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the gift, not of volitional struggle, but of spiritual hospitality."
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"I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged."
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"Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone."
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"No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality."
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"I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel."
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"It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave."
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"It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed."
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"I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel."
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"It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure."
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"Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships."
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"It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance."
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