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Better Quotes by Thomas Merton
- It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted…
- Not only does silence give us a chance to understand ourselves better, to get a truer and more balanced perspective on our own lives in…
- My God, I pray better to you by breathing. I pray better to you by walking than by talking.
- Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
- Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from which one is…
- Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it.…
- No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine…
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov
- I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am… — John James Audubon
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
- Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for… — Marcus Aurelius