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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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I've often thought, I'm nobody. Why would God answer my prayer? But God's not impressed by eloquence; he's impressed by our longing…
— Stormie Omartian
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When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love,…
— Martin Prechtel
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In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us…
— Jimmy Carter
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If writing is language and language is desire and longing and suffering . . . then why when we write, when we…
— Carole Maso
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Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.
— Erwin McManus
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If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let us give up our longing for welfare, our love of war, and our desire to see the government control and shape…
— Ron Paul
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In these times - where social appearance is more important than spiritual substance - what has become our longing to change is…
— Guy Finley
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There is a quiet light that shines in every heart. It draws no attention to itself though it is always secretly there.…
— John O'Donohue
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our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.
— Isak Dinesen
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We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things,…
— Junot Diaz
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Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.
— Jim Elliot
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