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Us Quotes by John O'Donohue
- If you live the life you love, you will receive shelter and blessings. Sometimes the great famine of blessings in and around us derives from…
- 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 the heavens; and…
- There is an unseen life that dreams us; it knows our true direction and destiny. We can trust ourselves more than we realize, and we…
- 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…
- It is human longing that makes us holy.
- Each one of us was sent here for a special destiny.
- We are sent into the world to live to the full everything that awakens within us and everything that comes toward us.
- Sometimes ideas hold us down; they become heavy anchors that hold the bark of identity fixated in shallow, dead water.
- There is a quiet light that shines in every heart. It draws no attention to itself though it is always secretly there. It is what…
- Memory is the place where our vanished days secretly gather. ... The past seems to be gone and absent. Yet the grooves in the mind…
- The beauty of nature insists on taking its time. Everything is prepared. Nothing is rushed. The rhythm of emergence is a gradual, slow beat; always…
- 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…
- We were sent into the world alive with beauty. As soon as we choose Beauty, unseen forces conspire to guide and encourage us towards unexpected…
- We do not need to go out and find love; rather, we need to be still and let love discover us.
- Transience is the force of time that makes a ghost of every experience. There was never a dawn, regardless how beautiful or promising, that did…
- There is a relentless search for the factual and this quest often lacks warmth or reverence. At a certain stage in our life we may…
- What you encounter, recognize or discover depends to a large degree on the quality of your approach. Many of the ancient cultures practiced careful rituals…
- Many of us have made our world so familiar that we do not see it anymore. An interesting question to ask yourself at night is,…
- When our eyes are graced with wonder, the world reveals its wonders to us. There are people who see only dullness in the world and…
- Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle