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Else Quotes by Thomas Merton
- There is in us an instinct for newness, for renewal, for a liberation of creative power. We seek to awaken in ourselves a force which…
- For now, oh my God, it is to You alone that I can talk, because nobody else will understand. I cannot bring any other man…
- Our thought should not merely be an answer to what someone else has just said. Or what someone else might have said. Our interior world…
- We know when we are following our vocation when our soul is set free from preoccupation with itself and is able to seek God and…
- In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong.
- We cannot master everything, taste everything, understand everything, drain every experience to its last dregs. But if we have the courage to let almost everything…
- In an age where there is much talk about "being yourself," I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any…
- We too often forget that faith is a matter of questioning and struggle before it becomes one of certitude and peace. You have to doubt…
- 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…
- Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order…
- First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself in fear and…
- Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them…
More Else Quotes
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me… — Lucille Ball
- Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are… — Rajneesh
- It breaks your heart to see the one you love is happy with someone else, but it's more painful to know that… — Superman
- I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not… — Paulo Coelho
- When the lights don't glow the same way that they used to and I finally get a moment to myself, I will… — Drake
- The angel brought you back." "Because you asked him to. You could have anything alse in the world, and you asked for… — Cassandra Clare