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John O'Donohue has 173 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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In contrast to how a child belongs in the world, adult belonging is never as natural, innocent, or playful. Adult belonging has…
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Our bodies know they belong; it is our minds that make our lives so homeless.
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It is strange to be here. The mystery never leaves you alone. Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the…
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The blessings for which we hunger are not to be found in other places or people. These gifts can only be given…
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If you live the life you love, you will receive shelter and blessings. Sometimes the great famine of blessings in and around…
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To have true integrity, poise, and courage is to be attuned to the silent and invisible nature within you.
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When you've gone as far as you can go, quietly await your next beginning.
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The idea [of therapy] isn't to give people answers, or lead their bark of longing into a safe, dull, protected harbor, but…
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The essence of who you are is ultimately mysterious, ungraspable and numinous-completely different from every other structure of matter.
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When people get into therapy, or when they need healing, their real hope is that they'll come to the secret frontier in…
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We [humans] are the only creatures who are in-between. We're of the earth, but don't belong to it, because we strain after…
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In order to keep our balance, we need to hold the interior and exterior, visible and invisible, known and unknown, temporal and…
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The combined outrage of the millions of creatures which have suffered at the hands of man may well combine to haunt us.…
— Unknown Author
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We are homesick for places, we are reminded of places, it is the sounds and smells and sights of places which haunt…
— Alan Gussow
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Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
— Margaret Fuller
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There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without…
— Gilbert Parker
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So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars,…
— Stephen King
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It's possible this whole "Why do Latinos love Morrisey?" question will haunt us forever. Fortunately, Canadian academics are on the case.
— Chuck Klosterman
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Nor do we merely feel these essences for one short hour no, even as these trees that whisper round a temple become…
— John Keats
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The opposite of esprit d'escalier is the way that life's embarrassments come back to haunt us even after they're long past. I…
— Cory Doctorow
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We all have things that come back to haunt us. Some of us just see them more clearly than others.
— Jodi Picoult
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Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them." "I don't…
— Sue Grafton
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The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing…
— Kate Mosse
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The past does not haunt us. We haunt the past. We allow our minds to focus in that direction. We open memories…
— Augusten Burroughs
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