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Soul Quotes by John O'Donohue
- The blessings for which we hunger are not to be found in other places or people. These gifts can only be given to you by…
- Negativity is an addiction to the bleak shadow that lingers around every human form ... you can transfigure negativity by turning it toward the light…
- At death, this physical separation is broken. The soul is released from its particular and exclusive location in this body. The soul then comes in…
- When you had an ‘anam cara,’ (soul friend), your friendship cut across all convention and category. You were joined in an ancient and eternal way…
- To be holy is to be home, to be able to rest in the house of belonging that we call the soul.
- The greatest friend of the soul is the unknown
- Either we are in the universe to inhabit the eternity of our souls and grow real, or else we might as well dedicate our days…
- In turning away from beauty, we turn away from all that is wholesome and true, and deliver ourselves into an exile where the vulgar and…
- The one you love, your anam cara, your soul friend, is the truest mirror to reflect your soul.
- The silence of landscape conceals vast presence. Place is not simply location. A place is a profound individuality. With complete attention, landscape celebrates the liturgy…
- I arise today... Blessed by all things / wings of breath, / delight of eyes, / wonder of whisper, / intimacy of touch, / eternity…
- I arise to day... In the name of Silence / Womb of the Word, / In the name of Stillness / Home of Belonging, /…
- The greatest friend of the soul is the unknown. Yet we are afraid of the unknown because it lies outside our vision and our control.…
- The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of shape and the burden of exposure. Each thing…
- Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will…
- All the possibilities of your human destiny are asleep in your soul. You are here to realize and honor these possibilities. When love comes in…
- Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home. Understanding nourishes belonging. When you really feel understood,…
- 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…
- 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…
- Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side…
- Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
- Your soul is the priestess of memory, selecting, sifting, and ultimately gathering your vanishing days toward presence.
- 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…
- You have traveled too fast over false ground; Now your soul has come to take you back. Take refuge in your senses, open up To…
- When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered.
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- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
- I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the… — Neil Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt