"So much depends not on how awkward destiny……" — John O'Donohue
"So much depends not on how awkward destiny is, but rather on how openly it is embraced."
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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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In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very different from what…
— Amy Adams
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Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone…
— Drew Barrymore
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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle…
— Alfred Adler
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I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in…
— Edward de Bono
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Sometimes, you can not click with somebody, and it can feel awkward.
— Jeff Bridges
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I don't like to fly. I've never been a good flyer. I have a lot of friends that have permanent…
— Sandra Bullock
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I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.
— John Clare
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For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me…
— Jarvis Cocker
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but…
— Fiona Apple
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I think sports gave me the first place where this awkward girl could feel comfortable in my own skin. I…
— Teri McKeever
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If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian…
— John Haynes Holmes
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