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Matter Quotes by Thomas Merton
- Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
- Our real journey in life is interior; It is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of…
- No matter how ruined man and his world may seem to be, and no matter how terrible man's despair may become, as long as he…
- Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied,…
- The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we…
- Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them.
- 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…
- The importance of detachment from things, the importance of poverty, is that we are supposed to be free from things that we might prefer to…
- Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was about as scientific…
- The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the…
More Matter Quotes
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- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as… — Andrea Arnold
- I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter… — Darren Aronofsky
- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person… — Richard Attenborough
- The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can… — Chinua Achebe
- Hardware works best when it matters the least. — Norman Ralph Augustine