Quote by John O'Donohue Download Open image “So much depends not on how awkward destiny is, but rather on how openly it is embraced.” — John O'Donohue ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Never consider a set of comfortable or uncomfortable emotions to be destiny. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Awkwardness is part of life but it's edited out of what we consume. — Amelia Dimoldenberg Copy Share Image
Sometimes in life you have an appointment with destiny, and sometimes you just have to get destiny to squeeze you in. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
When destiny forgets to tie some people in blood relations.. It corrects its mistake by making them true friends. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For each of us destiny is a blend of potential, circumstances, and choices. — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
I always was kind of on the edge of the church when I was fully in it , cos I was always asking the… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
It is lovely to meet an old person whose face is deeply lined, a face that has been deeply inhabited, to look in the… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“For Someone Awakening To The Trauma of His or Her Past: For everything under the sun there is a time. This is the season of your awkward harvesting, When the pain takes you where you would rather not go, Through the white curtain of yesterdays to a place You had forgotten you knew from the inside out; And a time… — John O'Donohue Copy Share
It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you and a world at your fingertips outside you. It is an immense privilege, and it is incredible that humans manage to forget the miracle of being here. Rilke said, ‘Being here is so much,’ and it is uncanny… — John O'Donohue Copy Share
“If we could be mindful of how short our time is, we might learn how precious each day is.” — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
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 it, to let it become something creative and positive that contributes to who you are. Nietzche said that one of the best days in his life was the day when he rebaptized all his negative… — John O'Donohue Copy Share
A friend is a loved one who awakens your life in order to free the wild possibilities within you. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“There is a poetic import to the phrase ‘without a shadow of a doubt’: in all probability, there is no doubt without a shadow.… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
If you allow yourself to be the person you are then everything will come into rhythm. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Much of the stress and emptiness that haunt us can be traced back to our lack of attention to beauty. Internally, the mind becomes… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Consumerism is the worship of the god of quantity; advertising is its liturgy. Advertising is schooling in false longing. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
