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Total quotes: 6

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Thomas Merton

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Birthday: January 31, 1915

Birthplace: Prades, PyrÃ©nÃ©es-Orientales, France

Death: December 10, 1968

Educated At: Clare College, Columbia University

Lifestyle: Mystic

Manner of Death: Accident

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Essayist, Theologian, Autobiographer, Journalist, Writer

Total quotes: 6

“It all adds up to one thing: peace, silence, solitude. The world and its noise are out of sight and far away. Forest and field, sun and wind and sky, earth and water, all speak the same language.”

— Thomas Merton, The Waters of Siloe

Tagged: Peace, Silence, Solitude, Life, Language

“The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.’”

— Thomas Merton, Thomas Merton as quoted in Forbes

Tagged: Decisions, Choices

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

— Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

Tagged: Creative, Art, Find Yourself

“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.”

— Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”

— Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

Tagged: Love, Start of Love, Fresh Love

“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. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.”

— Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain

Tagged: Love, Suffering, Pain, Resilience, INFP

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