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Real Quotes by Thomas Merton
- 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…
- Our real journey in life is interior.
- 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,…
- The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some…
- If we examine ourselves carefully we shall see most of us have an enormous amount of unfinished business...We have to be free so that we…
- Therefore, doing the Stations of the Cross was still more laborious than consoling, and required a sacrifice. It was much the same with all my…
- For the sinful self is not my real self, it is not the self YOU have wanted for me, only the self that I have…
- Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
- We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
- I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a…
- The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other…
- 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…
- The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.
- To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but only the exercise…
- Persons are not known by intellect alone, not by principles alone, but only by love. It is when we love the other, the enemy, that…
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- You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
- We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs. — Bashar al-Assad
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- Crying wolf is a real danger. — David Attenborough
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