"There is nothing wrong with not wanting to be a hospitable person and have groups of people in your home touching your personables."

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True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen has described it as receiving the stranger on his own terms, and asserts that it can be offered only by those who 'have found the center of their lives in their own hearts'.

— Kathleen Norris