Thomas Merton Famous Quotes
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
"Love seeks one thing only the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward."
It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.
"The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt."
"Stop asking yourself questions that have no meaning. Or if they have, you'll find out when you need to -- find out both the questions and the answers."
A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.
The least of learning is done in the classrooms.
Thomas Merton Quotations
A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
Bob Edwards
"Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring."
Chinese Proverb
"Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger."
John Bay
"We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness."
Maxwell Maltz
"Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now blue-green meat, THAT'S bad for you"
Tommy Smothers
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent
"I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,...they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights."
Oscar Levant
I write music with an exclamation point
Richard Wagner
"I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference. (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)"
Dwight D Eisenhower
I came upstairs into the world for I was born in a cellar.
William Congreve