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Value Quotes by Thomas Merton
- The things I thought were so important -- because of the effort I put into them -- have turned out to be of small value.…
- It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is the…
- One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to see the value…
- Love is not a mere emotion or sentiment. It is the lucid and ardent responses of the whole person to a value that is revealed…
- I had refused to pay any attention to the moral laws upon which all our vitality and sanity depend: and so now I was reduced…
- I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. If modern people were a little less sane,…
- Cupidity...takes created things for ends in themselves, which they are not. The will that seeks rest in creatures for their own sake stops on the…
- Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve…
- The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own…
More Value Quotes
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for,… — Thomas Arnold
- The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people… — Chester A. Arthur
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural… — David Attenborough
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius