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Inspirational Quotes by John O'Donohue
- When you've gone as far as you can go, quietly await your next beginning.
- The idea [of therapy] isn't to give people answers, or lead their bark of longing into a safe, dull, protected harbor, but to make people…
- The essence of who you are is ultimately mysterious, ungraspable and numinous-completely different from every other structure of matter.
- When people get into therapy, or when they need healing, their real hope is that they'll come to the secret frontier in themselves, some unknown…
- 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 the heavens; and…
- In order to keep our balance, we need to hold the interior and exterior, visible and invisible, known and unknown, temporal and eternal, ancient and…
- Though the human body is born complete in one moment, the birth of the human heart is an ongoing process. It is being birthed in…
- A friend is a loved one who awakens your life in order to free the wild possibilities within you.
- The greatest friend of the soul is the unknown
- We are privileged, and the duty of privilege is absolute integrity.
- When a blessing is invoked, a window opens in eternal time.
- Each one of us was sent here for a special destiny.
- When you forgive, some deeper, divine generosity takes you over... When you cannot forgive, you are a prisoner of the hurt done to you.
- Light is incredibly generous, but also gentle.
- We are sent into the world to live to the full everything that awakens within us and everything that comes toward us.
- If you allow yourself to be the person you are then everything will come into rhythm.
- One of the most precious things you should always preserve in a friendship and in love is your own difference.
- Often regret is very false and displaced, and imagines the past to be totally other than it was.
- It's a dangerous thing to name yourself wrongly or to name yourself unjustly.
- The duty of priviledge is absolute intregity
- When one flower blooms spring awakens everywhere
- We do not need to go out and find love; rather, we need to be still and let love discover us.
- If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to…
- ...to gaze into the face of another is to gaze into the depth and entirety of his life.
- We do not need to operate according to the idea of a predetermined program for our lives.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento