Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Quote by Thomas Merton
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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Click on the picture of Thomas Merton quote you want to see a larger version.
Thomas Merton Quotes
- We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
- Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
- Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
- When ambition ends, happiness begins.
- October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.
- Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.
- If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
- Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
- We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.
- The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Best Quotes
- I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.
- I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
- Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
- People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.
- Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
- Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
- A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.
- We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.