Furniture Quotes by John O'Donohue

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

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

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

“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

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

“If we could be mindful of how short our time is, we might learn how precious each day is.”

— John O'Donohue

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

A friend is a loved one who awakens your life in order to free the wild possibilities within you.

— John O'Donohue

“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

If you allow yourself to be the person you are then everything will come into rhythm.

— John O'Donohue

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

Consumerism is the worship of the god of quantity; advertising is its liturgy. Advertising is schooling in false longing.

— John O'Donohue