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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1447507 | Our reading is always urged on by the instinct to complete what we read, which is, for some reason, one of the most universal and profound of our instincts. You | Julia Briggs | ||
| 1de9ea0 | A day is precious because each day is essentially the microcosm of your whole life. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 88ffe73 | Each of us is a secret envoi of the earth. We | John O'Donohue | ||
| 2f0e88e | The earth is our origin and destination. The ancient rhythms of the earth have insinuated themselves into the rhythms of the human heart. The earth is not outside us; it is within: the clay from where the tree of the body grows. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 7aa3395 | The beauty of the imagination is that it can discover such magnificent vastness inside a tiny space. Our culture is dominated by quantity. Even those who have plenty hunger for more and more. Everywhere around us, the reign of quantity extends and multiplies. Sadly the voyage of greed has all the urgency but no sense of destination. Desire becomes inflated and loses all sense of vision and proportion. When beauty becomes an acquisition it b.. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 114a6a3 | There is a poetic import to the phrase 'without a shadow of a doubt': in all probability, there is no doubt without a shadow. Doubt is the shadow cast when something gets in the way of the light. Ironically, doubt itself often brings greater light because of the shadow it casts. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 7ff4673 | P. J. Curtis, the great Irish authority on rhythm and blues music, often says that the search for meaning is really the search for the lost chord. When the lost chord is discovered by humankind, the discord in the world will be healed and the symphony of the universe will come into complete harmony with itself. | John O'Donohue | ||
| d70ee63 | Wherever there is distance, there is longing. Yet there is some strange wisdom in the fact of distance. It is interesting to remember that the light that sustains life here on earth comes from elsewhere. Light is the mother of life. Yet the sun and the moon are not on the earth; they bless us with light across the vast distances. We are protected and blessed in our distance. Were we nearer to the sun, the earth would be consumed in its fire.. | John O'Donohue | ||
| d1cd559 | The Greeks believed that time had secret structure. There was the moment of Epiphany when time suddenly opened and something was revealed in luminous clarity. There was the moment of krisis when time got entangled and directions became confused and contradictory. There was also the moment of kairos; this was the propitious moment. Time opened up in kindness and promise. All the energies cohered to offer a fecund occasion of initiative, crea.. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 68a2b32 | A Blessing May the light of your soul guide you. May the light of your soul bless the work you do with the secret love and warmth of your heart. May you see in what you do the beauty of your own soul. May the sacredness of your work bring healing, light, and renewal to those who work with you and to those who see and receive your work. May your work never weary you. May it release within you wellsprings of refreshment, inspiration, and exci.. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 8b53126 | Nothing in creation is ever totally at home in itself. ... It is the deepest intimacy which is nevertheless infused with infinite distance. | communion longing love oneness spiritual-seeking | John O'Donohue | |
| c490ed9 | We do not need to go out to find love; rather, we need to be still and let love discover us. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 405be91 | We respond with joy to the call of beauty because in an instant it can awaken under the layers of the heart a forgotten brightness. Plato said: 'Beauty was ours in all its brightness...Whole were we who celebrated that festival' (Phaedrus). | John O'Donohue | ||
| 4f75425 | When you regain a sense of your life as a journey of discovery, you return to rhythm with yourself. When you take the time to travel with reverence, a richer life unfolds before you. | John O'Donohue | ||
| b7d1bbf | Fashioned from the earth, we are souls in clay form. We need to remain in rhythm with our inner clay voice and longing. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 1111143 | Respectability and security are subtle traps on life's journey. Those who are drawn to extremes are often nearer to renewal and self-discovery. Those trapped in the bland middle region of respectability are lost without ever realizing it. This can be a trap for those addicted to the business world. Many people in business operate only with one side of their mind: the strategic, tactical, mechanical side day in and day out. This becomes a me.. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 19f8a1c | The beauty of being human is the capacity and desire for intimacy. Yet we know that even those who are most intimate remain strange to us. Like children, we often "make strange" with each other." | belonging communion divine-love friendship intimacy longing love relationship solitude | John O'Donohue | |
| e3bbf89 | There is a place in you where you have never been wounded, where there's still a sureness in you, where there's a seamlessness in you, and where there is a confidence and tranquility in you. And I think the intention of | John O’Donohue | ||
| 9b38e67 | The most subversive invitation you could ever accept is the invitation to awaken to who you are and where you have landed. | John O'Donohue | ||
| e223f98 | Good conversation is the enemy of falsity, facade, and shallowness. It chases the truth of things, it demolishes the flimsy foundation of facade and it penetrates the depths so as to soar into unfolding possibility. | friendship | John O'Donohue | |
| 8930014 | ON THE DEATH OF THE BELOVED Though we need to weep your loss, You dwell in that safe place in our hearts Where no storm or night or pain can reach you. Your love was like the dawn Brightening over our lives, Awakening beneath the dark A further adventure of color. The sound of your voice Found for us A new music That brightened everything. Whatever you enfolded in your gaze Quickened in the joy of its being; You placed smiles like flowers O.. | John O'Donohue | ||
| 767bb26 | Because you were once at home somewhere, you are never an alien anywhere. | celtic-spirituality home nature | John O'Donohue | |
| 0e2feaf | To the left, Pigpen, Man O'War and Dust are laughing in a booth with my brother, Brandon. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 9830780 | Two motorcycles rumble in behind me and park in open spots. It's Pigpen and Dust. They're part of the volunteers tailing me and Violet until we're safe. | dust pigpen | Katie McGarry | |
| fcd6c4c | Her shoulders never shook. No tears streamed down her face. The worst type of crying wasn't the kind everyone could see - the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 513c4d4 | I already texted Pigpen and Dust and they're heading with us. | dust pigpen | Katie McGarry | |
| 7008631 | Pigpen saunters up beside me. He's in his midtwenties and a wall of solid muscle. Most men wet themselves when he looks in their direction. "Eli wants him in." | Katie McGarry | ||
| 0aa5014 | And if by some miracle he did manage to start the truck, Pigpen and Dust would stand around it like human cement pillars. | pigpen | Katie McGarry | |
| fc11aeb | They discuss baseball, football, basketball. Blah, blah, blah. It must be a male thing to talk about playing with balls. | Katie McGarry | ||
| a0f4ad1 | Took her [Ms. Whitlock] long enough to grade it." He mumbles. True. "But it took us forever to turn it in. She didn't have to accept it was from, she didn't have to let us write it together and she didn't have to give us an A-plus, but she did." | english ms-whitlock pigpen violet | Katie McGarry | |
| 4041cb1 | Don't you dare ever hope for more. There's no such thing as living happily ever after or pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. The world is how it is and there always has to be bottom-feeders. People like you and me, we're it, and the world might want us to believe we can have more, but the moment we try to break out of the water they'll shove us down into the mud. It's better to know the truth. It hurts less if you accept society's crapp.. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 298273c | this family does not accept 'above average.' My daughter will excel." My father spoke with the air of a deity. He might as well have added the phrase so let it be written, so let it be done." | Katie McGarry | ||
| 3695cb7 | The worst type of letting go isn't the kicking or the screaming, because at least then there's enough emotion left to fight. No, the worst type is the silent acceptance. The quietness of the release. That's when the person realizes they no longer give a damn. | Katie McGarry | ||
| 0c14fae | Thank you Jonah." He lowers his head at the break in my voice. I ignore the moisture in his eyes and pretend that mine don't sting. "For what?" he whispers. " For showing me that people can change. Even if it is one person out of a million." | crying emotional growing-up jonah katie-mcgarry life-lessons stella touching-moments young-adult | Katie McGarry | |
| ea2ca21 | Speaking out takes courage, but fear can make a compelling argument. I'm not saying it will be easy, but telling the truth gives you power...It sets you free. | Katie McGarry | ||
| c61cf30 | The pure menace radiating from my younger sister is undeniable. She can hate me, but I need her to know that she has something that Stella never did: a place to fall. "And if he hurts you or if anyone hurts you...you have me." It feels unnatural, but I hug my sister. Her arms are limp at her sides, but she doesn't push me away. "Remember, you have me," I repeat." | family-relationships novella pushing-the-limits sibiling-bonding young-adult | Katie McGarry | |
| 42944a0 | Mi casa es un volcan, un constante borboteo de lava en peligro de explosion | Katie McGarry | ||
| 70b7585 | Estoy cansado de esto. Cansado de que todos se obsesionen con ellos mismos, tan obsesionados con el momento que han dejado de preocuparse por lo que ocurrira a continuacion | Katie McGarry | ||
| 69fd426 | The pain. The wounds scab over and you don't always feel like a knife is slashing through you. But when you least expect it, the pain flashes to remind you you'll never be the same. | Katie McGarry | ||
| f6c7435 | The security business is as thick as the club. Business in both areas stays private. Everyone is on a need-to-know basis, me and Mom included...that is until I patch in. | security-business | Katie McGarry | |
| b6af71b | The worst type of crying wasn't the kind everyone could see--the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. | Katie McGarry | ||
| d91e260 | Preferiria que estuviera vivo y encarcelado que muerto como un heroe | Marjane Satrapi | ||
| 78bc3c7 | Dans ta vie tu rencontreras beaucoup de cons. S'ils te blessent, dis-toi que c'est la betise qui les pousse a te faire du mal. Ca t'evitera de repondre a leur mechancete. Car il n'y a rien de pire au monde que l'amertume et la vengeance. .. Reste toujours digne et integre a toi meme. | Marjane Satrapi | ||
| d186d58 | The harder I tried to assimilate, the more I had the feeling that I was distancing myself from my culture, betraying my parents and my origins, that I was playing a game by somebody else's rules. | Marjane Satrapi |