"If you have a trust in and an……" — John O'Donohue
"If you have a trust in and an expectation of your own solitude, everything that you need to know will be revealed to you."
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179 Quotes by John O'Donohue
John O'Donohue has 179 quotes on this site.
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In contrast to how a child belongs in the world, adult belonging is never as natural, innocent, or playful. Adult…
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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…
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The blessings for which we hunger are not to be found in other places or people. These gifts can only…
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If you live the life you love, you will receive shelter and blessings. Sometimes the great famine of blessings in…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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In order to keep our balance, we need to hold the interior and exterior, visible and invisible, known and unknown,…
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I would agree that President Carter didn't live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976.…
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Expectation is the mother of all frustration.
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People win 'Oscars', and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation…
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If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life…
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'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line…
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There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.
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Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
— Charlotte Bronte
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Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that…
— James L. Buckley
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A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to…
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
— Samuel Alexander
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When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the…
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