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A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.


Tim O'Brien

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P.J. O'ROURKE Don't stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your...
PEGGY O'MARA Marry for love. But also choose to marry a man or woman who you love that treats you with the ultima...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR There will be a time when love is beautiful and passionate and nothing else will exist but you and t...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed w...
JOHN O'DONOHUE [I suspect] that in the drive toward the liberal universalist notion of human rights that characteri...
DARREN O'DONNELL All the possibilities of your human destiny are asleep in your soul. You are here to realize and hon...
JOHN O'DONOHUE If you are different from the rest of the flock, they bite you
VINCENT O'SULLIVAN We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE To love without ownership, to love with total trust and faith in that very love, to love with the sa...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR My feeling on the subject of sex with a man is - don't give it up unless you're willing to give him ...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Life is surreal. When you step back and really take a look at it, the irony is absolute.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Ladies, you have a ton of power if you just understand the fundamental differences between men and w...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.
SEáN O'CASEY You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, th...
JENNIFER O'NEILL For Equilibrium, a Blessing:
Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore,
May the relief ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Sometimes, when people speak, I cease listening to their words and zoom in instead on the cadence, a...
ROSIE O'DONNELL It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or ...
EUGENE O'NEILL It could be a meeting on the street, or a party or a lecture, or just a simple, banal introduction, ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of sh...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE The ego is the false self-born out of fear and defensiveness.
JOHN O'DONOHUE If you try to view yourself through the lenses that others offer you, all you will see are distortio...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE We do not need to go out and find love; rather, we need to be still and let love discover us.
JOHN O'DONOHUE Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
JOHN O'DONOHUE Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship i...
JOHN O'DONOHUE When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you....
JOHN O'DONOHUE No one else has access to the world you carry around within yourself; you are its custodian and entr...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore...
JOHN O'DONOHUE If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it w...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of...
JOHN O'DONOHUE All you can ever achieve is a sense of your soul. You gain little glimpses of its light, colors, and...
JOHN O'DONOHUE You are as young as you feel. If you begin to feel the warmth of your soul, there will be a youthful...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another world waits.
JOHN O'DONOHUE