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Something Quotes by Thomas Merton
- True encounter with Christ liberates something within us, a power we did not know we had, a capacity to grow and change.
- Perhaps peace is not, after all, something you work for, or 'fight for.' It is indeed 'fighting for peace' that starts all the wars. What,…
- The world as pure object is something that is not there. It is not a reality outside us for which we exist....It is a living…
- I came with the notion of perhaps saying something for monks and to monks of all religions because I am supposed to be a monk.…
- 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…
- The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.
- Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from which one is…
- Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can…
- Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
- Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it…
- 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…
- Every moment and every event of everyman's life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds,…
- Keeping a journal has taught me that there is not so much new in your life as you sometimes think. When you re-read your journal…
- 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…
- The soul of man, left to its own natural level, is a potentially lucid crystal left in darkness. It is perfect in its own nature,…
- 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…
- The question of love is one that cannot be evaded. Whether or not you claim to be interested in it from the moment you are…
More Something Quotes
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. — Giorgio Armani
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. — J. J. Abrams
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen