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Less Quotes by Thomas Merton
- Some of us need to discover that we will not begin to live more fully until we have the courage to do and see and…
- Take more time, cover less ground.
- My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God out of an…
- After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he thinks he is,…
- 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…
- The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that…
- In any case, his religious teaching consisted mostly in more or less vague ethical remarks, an obscure mixture of ideals of English gentlemanliness and his…
- The humble person receives praise the way a clean window takes the light of the sun. The truer and more intense the light is, the…
- I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. If modern people were a little less sane,…
- The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly…
- I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are too easily exaggerated,…
- Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve…
- We thank Him less by words than by the serene happiness of silent acceptance. It is our emptiness in the presence of His reality, our…
- The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.
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- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours… — David Attenborough
- A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. — Margaret Atwood
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is… — Saint Augustine
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. — Jane Austen
- If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. — Jane Austen