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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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When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing…
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Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
— Willa Cather
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They want to deceive their people first because now they are in a very shabby situation
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the…
— Paula Gunn Allen
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Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.
— Jay McInerney
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A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
— Willa Cather
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A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is…
— Confucius
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It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
— Edgar Friedenberg
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Houston is a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex,…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Love makes the world go 'round, it's true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the passage of…
— Tom Robbins
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