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Day Quotes by John O'Donohue
- Imitate the habit of twilight,/Taking time to open the well of color/That fostered the brightness of day.
- Each morning we awaken to the light and the invitation to a new day in the world of time; each night we surrender to the…
- We have surface time, which is the time we move through every day, but we need to reach the rhythms of deep time. Like the…
- May I live this day... Compassionate of heart, / Gentle in word, / Gracious in awareness / Courageous in thought, / Generous in love /…
- I arise to day... In the name of Silence / Womb of the Word, / In the name of Stillness / Home of Belonging, /…
- If you try to avoid or remove the awkward quality, it will pursue you. The only effective way to still its unease is to transfigure…
- Transience is the force of time that makes a ghost of every experience. There was never a dawn, regardless how beautiful or promising, that did…
- You have traveled too fast over false ground; Now your soul has come to take you back. Take refuge in your senses, open up To…
- So at the end of this day, we give thanks For being betrothed to the unknown.
- May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.
- On its outer surface time is vulnerable to transience. Regardless of its sadness or beauty, each day empties and vanishes. In its deeper heart, time…
- Many of us have made our world so familiar that we do not see it anymore. An interesting question to ask yourself at night is,…
- We live between the act of awakening and the act of surrender. Each morning, we awaken to the light and the invitation to a new…
More Day Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong