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Person Quotes by Thomas Merton
- Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false Self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the…
- The desire to kill is like the desire to attack another with a red hot iron. I have to pick up the incandescent metal and…
- Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only…
- Before we can become who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person who we think we are, here and…
- Love is not a mere emotion or sentiment. It is the lucid and ardent responses of the whole person to a value that is revealed…
- The man who lives in division is living in death. He cannot find himself because he is lost; he has ceased to be a reality.…
- 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…
- 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…
- Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one…
- 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…
- 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…
- To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath…
- 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…
- We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real...and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be…
- This act of total surrender is not merely a fantastic intellectual and mystical gamble; it is something much more serious. It is an act of…
- Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor…
- The grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.
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- As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash
- Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not… — Mary Kay Ash
- Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
- A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions. — Arthur Ashe