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Mean Quotes by Thomas Merton
- My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain…
- Life consists in learning to live on one's own, spontaneous, freewheeling: to do this one must recognize what is one's own-be familiar and at home…
- The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear…
- What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a…
- To be risen with Christ means not only that one has a choice and that one may live by a higher law - the law…
- For me to be a saint means to be myself.
- A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying Him.... The more…
- 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…
- To some men peace merely means the liberty to exploit other people without fear of retaliation or interference. To others peace means the freedom to…
- 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,…
- Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who love us! I…
- Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already possess. Vocation does…
- Contemplation in the age of Auschwitz and Dachau, Solovky and Karaganda is something darker and more fearsome than contemplation in the age of the Church…
- A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It “consents,”…
- For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out…
- Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a 'means of livelihood'…
More Mean Quotes
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams