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Time Quotes by Thomas Merton
- The art of our time, sacred art included, will necessarily be characterized by a certain poverty, grimness and roughness which correspond to the violent realities…
- Take more time, cover less ground.
- Business is not the supreme virtue, and sanctity is not measured by the amount of work we accomplish. Perfection is found in the purity of our…
- The imagination should be allowed a certain amount of time to browse around.
- October is a fine and dangerous season in America. It is dry and cool and the land is wild with red and gold and crimson,…
- Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. They want quick success, and they are in such a hurry to get it that they cannot take…
- We must slow down to a human tempo and we’ll begin to have time to listen.
- Paradoxically, I have found peace because I have always been dissatisfied. My moments of depression and despair turn out to be renewals, new beginnings. If…
- Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
- We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
- We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for…
- October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in…
- For the birds there is not a time that they tell, but the point vierge between darkness and light, between being and nonbeing. You can…
- 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…
- When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your…
- The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds
- The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He…
- 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…
- We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and God is shining through it all the time. God manifests Himself everywhere, in everything…
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- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
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