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One Quotes by John O'Donohue
- It is strange to be here. The mystery never leaves you alone. Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another…
- 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.
- Each one of us was sent here for a special destiny.
- The one you love, your anam cara, your soul friend, is the truest mirror to reflect your soul.
- One of the most beautiful gifts in the world is the gift of encouragement.
- One of the most precious things you should always preserve in a friendship and in love is your own difference.
- Celtic spirituality is awakening so powerfully now because it illuminates the fact that the visible is only one little edge of things. The visible is…
- I have never seen white so absolute / And alone, glistening in awkward form / Dreaming across the water a bright path. / As it…
- When one flower blooms spring awakens everywhere
- 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…
- One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they…
- No one else has access to the world you carry around within yourself; you are its custodian and entrance. No one else can see the…
- You are as young as you feel. If you begin to feel the warmth of your soul, there will be a youthfulness in you that…
- One of the most beautiful gifts in the world is the gift of encouragement. When someone encourages you, that person helps you over a threshold…
- One of the deepest longings of the human soul is to be seen.
- The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere - in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves.…
- Our trust in the future has lost its innocence. We know now that anything can happen from one minute to the next. Politics, religion, economics,…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — 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
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — 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
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle