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
- We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
- 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.
- Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
- 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.
- 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.
- Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
- The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.
- Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
- Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.
- The key to making money is to stay invested.
- There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
- We need proof in our society.
- There's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody, I don't get to go to their ballgame, I don't get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.
- The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
- I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.
- I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
- Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.