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.
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Thomas Merton Quotes
- Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
- We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
- Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
- By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
- By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
- Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
- 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.
- A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
- Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
- Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
Best Quotes
- They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.
- Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
- I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
- Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
- I think it's really cool that there are people like Adele on the cover of 'Vogue' and 'Rolling Stone,' and like I think it's really important that people are talking about your body, because if they don't, then you'll never be able to break that barrier.
- Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
- We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
- I say, thou mad March hare.
- Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.