Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
Quote by Thomas Merton
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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
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Thomas Merton Quotes
- Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
- Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
- Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
- 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.
- Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
- Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
- The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
- The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.
- In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
- Scalded cats fear even cold water.
- I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
- It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
- Human nature is not of itself vicious.
- Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
- What's wrong with extreme dieting and hard-core fitness plans is that they don't take into account the rest of your life.