Being alone Quote by Thomas Merton Download Open image “If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.” — Thomas Merton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being alone Being single Happy being single Happy single Heart I am single Ifs Inspirational Paradise Single life Single status Singles
Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
If you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
“We dream much of paradise, or rather of a number of successive paradises, but each of them is, long before we die, a paradise… — Marcel Proust 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
“Truth is, I’m generally happiest when it’s just me. It’s okay to be madly in love with yourself.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
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I'm hurt all the time. I don't want to cry for the way I feel inside. I just want someone to hold me... I'm… — Me Copy Share Image
You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love. — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
I wish I had someone to love me as much as I could love them. It's hard being alone when everyone else you know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People think being alone makes you LONELY, But I don't think thats true. Being surrounded by wrong people is the loneliest thing in World — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't feel alone, because there is always someone out there who loves you more than you can imagine. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
Be much alone with God, and take time to get thoroughly acquainted. Converse over everything with Him. Unburden yourself wholly -every thought, feeling, wish,… — Horatius Bonar Copy Share Image
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
That moment when you burst out crying alone in your room. And you realize that no one truly knows how unhappy you are. Because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
