Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Quote by Thomas Merton
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Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
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Thomas Merton Quotes
- The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
- We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
- Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
- Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
- 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.
- 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.
- Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
- In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
- Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
- The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
Best Quotes
- Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
- We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.
- I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
- I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.
- Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
- Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
- I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.
- Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.
- The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.
- Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.