Found Quote by Thomas Merton Download Open image “Happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found.” — Thomas Merton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Found Happiness
A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found: for a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you are not happy, you will never be able to give happiness to others. — Shweta Tripathi Copy Share Image
The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought. — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
You have to believe in happiness, or happiness will never come to you. — Frenchqueen Copy Share Image
You search endlessly for permanent happiness in a world where nothing is permanent. — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
“Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep, inexpressible certitude… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If nothing that can be seen can either be God or represent Him to us as He is, then to find God we must… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We are not perfectly free until we live in pure hope. For when our hope is pure, it no longer trusts exclusively in human… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The desire to kill is like the desire to attack another with an ingot of red -hot iron: I have to pick up the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance to a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from which one… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The wisdom of the flesh is a judgement that the ordinary ends of our natural appetites are the goods to which the whole of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I love being in Malibu. It's so cool there, and the water is just, it's nice and, and I love the beach. And I… — Jackie Evancho Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a… — Kenny Wormald Copy Share Image
It is the incongruous thing in my entire life, this isolation.. ... My work requires it - but I myself have no need or… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Real breakthroughs are not found because you want to develop some new technology, but because you are curious and want to find out how… — Anton Zeilinger Copy Share Image
Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
I wish that I had known back then that a mastery of process would lead to a product. Then I probably wouldn't have found… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I… — Robbin Crosby Copy Share Image
