"Often regret is very false and displaced, and……" — John O'Donohue
"Often regret is very false and displaced, and imagines the past to be totally other than it was."
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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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Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a…
— Jo Bonner
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For humanity has moved forward to an era when wrong and slavery are being displaced, and reason and justice are…
— Mary Livermore
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Pain or not, I would most likely walk around in a suicidal reverie the rest of my life, never actually…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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We entered a synagogue which was packed with the greatest stinking bunch of humanity I have ever seen. Either these…
— George S. Patton
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The way people are being displaced, who can stop the arrival of Maoism?
— Unknown Author
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Fourth, we will continue providing humanitarian assistance to innocent civilians who have been displaced by this terrorist organization. This includes…
— Barack Obama
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The number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million, most of them in…
— Paul Brown
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We must continue to have voting rights in the state, not to politicize this, but they must have a voice…
— Marc Morial
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All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss…
— John Berger
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One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors for to dwell long upon them is to add to the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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What I observed in western Azerbaijan, among the small portion of the nearly one million Azerbaijanis who were displaced by…
— Ed Kashi
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Today, local economies are being destroyed by the pluralistic, displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in…
— Wendell Berry
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