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Simple Quotes by Thomas Merton
- The simplicity that all this presupposes is not easy to attain. I find that my life constantly threatens to become complex and divisive. A life…
- 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…
- The reality that is present to us and in us: call it being...Silence. And the simple fact that by being attentive, by learning to listen…
- Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This…
More Simple Quotes
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved… — Charles Babbage
- Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. — Gaston Bachelard
- You all want to know what is my dream? Very simple. To walk along the beach, holding the hand of my lover. — Michelle Bachelet
- There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development… — Lord Acton
- I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays. — Amy Adams
- It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty… — Honore de Balzac
- It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. — Amelia Barr
- The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant… — Dave Barry
- Patriarchy is impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up their own… — Roseanne Barr
- Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only… — Dave Barry
- Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple… — John Adams