Michael O'Brien famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Love is the soul of the world, though its body bleeds, and we must learn to bleed with it. Love is also the seed and milk and the fruit of the world, though we can partake of it in greed or reverence. We are born, we eat, and learn, and die. We leave a tracery of messages in the lives of others, a little shifting of the soil, a stone moved from here to there, a word uttered, a song, a poem left behind. I was here, each of these declare. I was here.
-- Michael O'Brien

#Song #Love Is #Greed
J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the imagination by pummelling it, bombarding it with powerful stimuli, in a rapid pace, with plenty of emotional rewards.
-- Michael O'Brien

#Powerful #Emotional #Media
Providence The will of God acting together with human will. But he respects our will absolutely. He does not force. Love never forces. It only invites. ... There is a war between good and
-- Michael O'Brien

#War #Liberty #Acting
A rare objectivity and insight can be imparted regarding this world's struggle for spiritual integrity. In the land of Faerie, the reader may see his small battles writ large in the wars of titans or elves and understand for the first time, his own worth.
-- Michael O'Brien

#Spiritual #Integrity #War
Solitude is the natural dwelling place of truthâ€¦It is there you will wrestle. It is there you will be tested by fire and by darkness.
-- Michael O'Brien

#Fire #Dwelling Place #Darkness
...life without coffee is not really life.
-- Michael O'Brien

#Coffee
Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.
-- Michael O'Brien

#Effort #Survival #Saws

The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.
If you and I shall, like the believing shepherds, watch and long for His appearing, one day we, too, shall hear a music grander and sweeter even than the song of angels, when the great Composer shall transpose all the strains of earth from the minor into the major, when the wail of nature shall give way to the glad harmony of the everlasting jubilee.
For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
There's a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great & powerful one
Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.
Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.
The innocence of those who grind the faces of the poor, but refrain from pinching the bottoms of their neighbour's wives! The innocence of Ford, the innocence of Rockefeller! The nineteenth century was the Age of Innocence--that sort of innocence. With the result that we're now almost ready to say that a man is seldom more innocently employed than when making love.
Greed is permanent slavery

Michael O'Brien famous quotes

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