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Task Quotes by Thomas Merton
- 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 basic problem is not political, it is a-political and human. One of the most important things to do is to keep cutting deliberately through…
- It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted…
- I believe we are going to have to prepare ourselves for the difficult and patient task of outgrowing rigid and intransigent nationalism, and work slowly…
- Imagination has the creative task of making symbols, joining things together in such a way that they throw new light on each other and on…
- A superficial freedom to wander aimlessly here or there, to taste this or that, to make a choice of distractions, is simply a sham. It…
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- Hades raised an eyebrow. When he sat forward in his throne, shadowy faces appeared in the folds of his black robes, faces… — Rick Riordan
- A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily… — Bertrand Russell
- In any activity, we have to know what to expect, how to reach our objectives and what capacity we possess for the… — Paulo Coelho
- We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our… — Guy Finley
- Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if… — Marcus Aurelius
- We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the… — Ed Begley, Jr.
- Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal… — Deepak Chopra