One of the most precious things you should always preserve in a friendship and in love is your own difference. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
A friend is a loved one who awakens your life in order to free the wild possibilities within you. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The one you love, your anam cara, your soul friend, is the truest mirror to reflect your soul. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
When you had an ‘anam cara,’ (soul friend), your friendship cut across all convention and category. You were joined in an ancient… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Most people are enduring a marginalized isolation. One of the great obstacles to modern friendships is the 'religion of rush.' People are… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. Such friendship is… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Good friends won't let you off the hook when you shouldn't be let off the hook. You can let fall the masks… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere - in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion,… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The greatest friend of the soul is the unknown. Yet we are afraid of the unknown because it lies outside our vision… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
I always was kind of on the edge of the church when I was fully in it , cos I was always asking the… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
It is lovely to meet an old person whose face is deeply lined, a face that has been deeply inhabited, to look in the… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“For Someone Awakening To The Trauma of His or Her Past: For everything under the sun there is a time. This is the season… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you and a… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“If we could be mindful of how short our time is, we might learn how precious each day is.” — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
If you try to avoid or remove the awkward quality, it will pursue you. The only effective way to still its unease is to… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
A friend is a loved one who awakens your life in order to free the wild possibilities within you. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“There is a poetic import to the phrase ‘without a shadow of a doubt’: in all probability, there is no doubt without a shadow.… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
If you allow yourself to be the person you are then everything will come into rhythm. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Much of the stress and emptiness that haunt us can be traced back to our lack of attention to beauty. Internally, the mind becomes… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Consumerism is the worship of the god of quantity; advertising is its liturgy. Advertising is schooling in false longing. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
