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Sense Quotes by John O'Donohue
- When we become isolated, we are prone to being damaged; our minds lose their flexibility and natural kindness; we become vulnerable to fear and negativity.…
- When you learn to embrace your self with a sense of appreciation and affection, you begin to glimpse the goodness and light that is in…
- Each of us is alone in the world. It takes great courage to meet the full force of your aloneness. Â… When you face your…
- When you begin to sense that your imagination is the place where you are most divine, you feel called to clean out of your mind…
- 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…
- Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic.…
- All you can ever achieve is a sense of your soul. You gain little glimpses of its light, colors, and contours. You feel the inspiration…
- It could be a meeting on the street, or a party or a lecture, or just a simple, banal introduction, then suddenly there is a…
- Even though life may have moved wearily and painfully through such a person, they have still managed not to let it corrode their soul. In…
- If you try to view yourself through the lenses that others offer you, all you will see are distortions; your own light and beauty will…
- Functionalism is lethal when it is not balanced by a sense of reverence. Without reverence, there is no sense of presence or wonder.
- This is the time to be slow, Lie low to the wall Until the bitter weather passes. Try, as best you can, not to let…
- The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere - in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves.…
- Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition... in the…
More Sense Quotes
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden