She didn’t care if the world thought she was pretty. All she wanted was that special someone to re...
TERRY A O'NEAL It’s a thorny road for dreamers and poets who fantasize of majestic places and deep-seated desires...
TERRY A. O'NEAL A person who loves you through your idiosyncrasies, despite the tiny inclusions, is a diamond worth ...
TERRY A O'NEAL Unless you're prepared to deal with the aftermath, never invite yourself to a situation where your p...
TERRY A O'NEAL Everyone will not favor you or
respect your beliefs, passion and purpose--so be it. But do not...
TERRY A. O'NEAL Everyone will not favor you or respect your beliefs, passion and purpose--so be it. But do not allow...
TERRY A. O'NEAL It’s easy to get caught up in where the world is going and lose sight of the direction we were hea...
TERRY A. O'NEAL The best narrative is one of infinite love. A spiritual affair--one not of the material world. Inter...
TERRY A. O'NEAL Assuming less does not make you naive, it makes you a better listener.
TERRY A O'NEAL When he admires the man he calls his father--a man who is slightly above 'the scum of the earth', wh...
TERRY A O'NEAL In the writers mind, even a backstory has a backstory.
TERRY A O'NEAL Just when you think you have it all figured out, an epiphany arrives at the higher level of one's co...
TERRY A O'NEAL You deserve someone who you don't mind sharing your world with—someone you can trust in it.
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TERRY A O'NEAL Share your dreams and they will be inspired. Plant seeds of knowledge and they will grow and reprodu...
TERRY A. O'NEAL Stop! Do not bare your soul on social networking brothers and sisters. If you reveal your cards in e...
TERRY A. O'NEAL I apologize to my words for not nurturing you and giving you the attention that you deserve.
TERRY A O'NEAL So, yes, I will marry you. Someday. If you'll have me," he said modestly.
"Of course I will, yo...
EILIS O'NEAL When you begin to fantasize about what you don't have, you begin to kill what you do have. #marriage
JAYCE O'NEAL And no you're not that important that you must always dismiss your current company to answer whomeve...
JAYCE O'NEAL When you chronically interrupt your time with whom ever you're with to answer your phone/text you ar...
JAYCE O'NEAL For all my friends in the media who like quotes, mark this quote down. From this day on I'd like...
SHAQUILLE O'NEAL What kind of incompetence is this, leaving dangerous fiends like us alone to commit mischief?
KATHLEEN O'NEAL GEAR There is no such thing as safe sex, since no one can create a condom for the soul.
DR. JAYCE O'NEAL If there is one thing I can promise, that I can guarantee, it is not that I can protect my other all...
HANNAH E. O'NEAL You can't judge a book by it's cover but you can sure sell a bunch of books if you have a good one.
DR. JAYCE O'NEAL Life moved, as inconstant and fickle as Wind Baby, frolicking, sleeping, weeping, but never truly st...
KATHLEEN O'NEAL GEAR One day the faithful will have it all!
NEAL A. MAXWELL The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself.
NEAL A. MAXWELL Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, when we are unduly impatien...
NEAL A. MAXWELL God does not begin by asking our ability, but more of our availability. When we prove our dependabil...
NEAL A. MAXWELL Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if by...
NEAL A. MAXWELL Anger should never be an overnight guest.
NEAL A. MAXWELL Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.
NEAL A. MAXWELL God does not begin by asking our ability, only our availability, and if we prove our dependability, ...
NEAL A. MAXWELL We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.
NEAL A. MAXWELL If we entertain temptations, soon they begin entertaining us!
NEAL A. MAXWELL Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!
NEAL A. MAXWELL God does not begin by asking our ability,only our availability,and if we prove our dependability,He ...
NEAL A. MAXWELL It is extremely important for you to believe in yourselves not only for what you are now but for wha...
NEAL A. MAXWELL If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.
NEAL A. MAXWELL We can be walking witnesses and standing sermons to which objective onlookers can say a quiet amen.
NEAL A. MAXWELL We can tell much by what we have already willing discarded along the pathway of discipleship. It is ...
NEAL A. MAXWELL Truly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they...
NEAL A. MAXWELL Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we a...
NEAL A. MAXWELL The acceptance of the reality that we are in the Lord's loving hands is only a recognition that we h...
NEAL A. MAXWELL If we are serious about our discipleship, Jesus will eventually request each of us to do those very ...
NEAL A. MAXWELL I testify that He is utterly incomparable in what He is, what He knows, what He has accomplished and...
NEAL A. MAXWELL Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, when we are unduly impatien...
NEAL A. MAXWELL Sir Thomas More was a victim of injustice and irony. Generously and meekly, just as he was about to ...
NEAL A. MAXWELL The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's al...
NEAL A. MAXWELL There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each...
NEAL A. MAXWELL Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements (and do not and must...
NEAL A. MAXWELL God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home an...
NEAL A. MAXWELL Do we always know what consequences flow from certain decisions? Many times, not. Part of living con...
NEAL A. MAXWELL Though events set up the defining moments which can evoke profiles in righteousness, outward commoti...
NEAL A. MAXWELL As parenting declines, the need for policing increases. There will always be a shortage of police if...
NEAL A. MAXWELL Be careful, fathers, when you inordinately desire things to be better for your children than they we...
NEAL A. MAXWELL Letting off steam always produces more heat than light.
NEAL A. MAXWELL A happy marriage is the world's best bargain.
O. A. BATTISTA The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
O. A. BATTISTA A neighbor is a person who can get to your house in less than a minute and takes two hours to go bac...
O. A. BATTISTA Missing someone gets easier everyday. Because, even though it is one day further from the last time ...
O. A. BATTISTA The surest way for a pedestrian to live longer nowadays is to buy himself a car.
O. A. BATTISTA One of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than the consequences...
O. A. BATTISTA An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
O. A. BATTISTA The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while...
O. A. BATTISTA I am one and when I am one I am none, and when I am none I have won.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive a...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I suppose we all have our little hiding-hole if the truth was known, but as small as it is, the whol...
FRANK O'CONNOR They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy...
TIM O'BRIEN We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers...
ARTHUR O'SHAUGHNESSY Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I ...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Virtue should always be colmingled with humor.
PATRICK O'BRIAN One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silenc...
JOHN O'DONOHUE In yourself right now is all the place you've got.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR [H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes ...
JENNY O'CONNELL Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - t...
SEáN O'CASEY The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church t...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Chris...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
ARTHUR O'SHAUGHNESSY You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You...
STEWART O'NAN All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
SEáN O'CASEY Gabrielle chuckled, her dark eyes twinkling. “So he’s been after you, has he? Poor Etta, pursued...
MICHELLE O'LEARY She paused and saw him tense in expectation. He wouldn’t like to hear this, but better from her th...
MICHELLE O'LEARY I’m not bipolar, I’ve just had a bipolar life foisted upon me.
DANIEL O'MALLEY That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the tr...
TIM O'BRIEN Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE They are all innocent until proven guilty. But not me. I am a liar until I am proven honest.
LOUISE O'NEILL I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theater—because at first glance ...
PETER O'TOOLE Happiness arises from getting what you want, and this comes and goes. Joy arises from being with wha...
MARY O'MALLEY It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice but the things you say. It's not th...
IAN O'SHEA You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. Y...
STEWART O'NAN They should."

"Should be like a wood bee," she said.

It was a private joke, a ...
STEWART O'NAN The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?
STEWART O'NAN Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't s...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a const...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR You never loved me, Farin. You never even said you liked me very much.
HEATHER O'BRIEN People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween cand...
HEATHER O'NEILL Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.
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 I guess we're really brothers, aren't we? Don't know what that means, except it means that some of t...
TIM O'BRIEN 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 Well, I'm not sure where this puts me, Sire. I mean, at least with the others I know what's expected...
AMIE O'BRIEN 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 Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.
FLANN O'BRIEN In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.
EDNA O'BRIEN 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 You are like nobody since I love you"
-Pablo Neruda

This art of love discloses the ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuri...
JOHN O'DONOHUE If you try to avoid or remove the awkward quality, it will pursue you. The only effective way to sti...
JOHN O'DONOHUE The heart is the inner face of your life. The human journey strives to make this inner face beautifu...
JOHN O'DONOHUE It is lovely to meet an old person whose face is deeply lined, a face that has been deeply inhabited...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Inspiration is always a surprising visitor.
JOHN O'DONOHUE you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care...
TIM O'BRIEN It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and dange...
TIM O'BRIEN ...his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe...
TIM O'BRIEN But this too is true: stories can save us.
TIM O'BRIEN They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of th...
TIM O'BRIEN The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.
NUALA O'FAOLAIN There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrib...
JOHN O'DONOHUE I’d begun to think of the Immortality Bus as the Entropy Bus, and of ourselves as trundling across...
MARK O'CONNELL It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore...
EDNA O'BRIEN I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to t...
P.J. O'ROURKE And although in many cases these unions proved happy enough, sailors being excellent husbands, often...
PATRICK O'BRIAN Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I write to discover what I know.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I s...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR My body is not my own any more. They have stamped their names all over it.
LOUISE O'NEILL The beauty that emerges from woundedness is a beauty infused with feeling; a beauty different from t...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Then Dad started going on about the complex geological formations in this part of the coast until Mu...
KERRIE O'CONNOR Having a Coke with You

is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biar...
FRANK O'HARA Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay....
FLANNERY O'CONNOR She had a vision of the two of them trapped on a tiny raft surrounded by miles of open water. It wou...
STEWART O'NAN I would not hurt you, little man,' he said.

'I think that I got the disorder in Mullingar...
FLANN O'BRIEN Fame stole my yellow. Yellow is the color you get when you're real and brutally honest. Yellow is wi...
ROSIE O'DONNELL Grace changes us and change is painful".
FLANNERY O'CONNOR The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is t...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an arti...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at...
EUGENE O'NEILL I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.
FRANK O'HARA Stand up, be counted. We have the numbers.
BILL O'REILLY Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they're doing, or how their hair looks. Nobo...
ERICA O'ROURKE I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the r...
STEWART O'NAN The city was a puzzle box built of symbols, a confusion of old and new, armored cars and donkeys in ...
STEWART O'NAN That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers w...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR She hated her job the same way I hated my jobs because she knew she was worth more, but she also hat...
TAWNI O'DELL Romance and romantic are different. Death, itself, can be romantic. Nature and a destructive snowsto...
R.B. O'BRIEN The robot successfully dismounted the car, proceeding at a slight crouch, and with exaggerated cauti...
MARK O'CONNELL To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the i...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had n...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a si...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Don’t tell me my writing is misogynistic or anti-feminist just because I or my heroines like to be...
R.B. O'BRIEN That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," a...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR When a man died, there had to be blame. Jimmy Cross understood this. You could blame the war, You co...
TIM O'BRIEN The rocking of the boat by the waves was soothing but unknown. The men on the shore were asleep. Not...
JOSEPH O'NEILL When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered.
JOHN O'DONOHUE Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.
TIM O'BRIEN Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When ...
MEGHAN O'ROURKE