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Away Quotes by Thomas Merton
- Are they moved by a sense of human need for silence, for reflection, for inner seeking? So they want to get away from the noise…
- And of course most non-Catholics imagine that the Church is immensely rich, and that all Catholic institutions make money hand over fist, and that all…
- What does it mean to know and experience my own “nothingness?” It is not enough to turn away in disgust from my illusions and faults…
- The gift of love is the gift of the power and capacity to love, and therefore, to give love with full effect is also to…
- The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away…
- To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many…
- Be still: There is no longer any need of comment. It was a lucky wind That blew away his halo with his cares, A lucky…
More Away Quotes
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. — Margaret Atwood
- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius
- The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius