"Sometimes ideas hold us down; they become heavy……" — John O'Donohue
"Sometimes ideas hold us down; they become heavy anchors that hold the bark of identity fixated in shallow, dead water."
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John O'Donohue
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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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More Anchors Quotes
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We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty.
— David Brinkley
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We all have our convictions formed by different things, and mine are informed by my faith, they're informed by the…
— Kirk Cameron
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For me, my family and my faith have been what's really been my anchor, and grounding me, and helping me…
— Kirk Cameron
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To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Being engaged in some way for the good of the community, whatever that community, is a factor in a meaningful…
— Patricia Churchland
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My mother is everything to me. She's my anchor, she's the person I go to when I need to talk…
— Demi Lovato
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Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell…
— Thomas Lovell Beddoes
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What an anchor is to a ship, hope is to the soul. Both ships and souls are kept safe by…
— June Hunt
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How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.
— Antonio Machado
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Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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