The tighter you squeeze, the less you have. Thomas Merton squeezetight Change image and share on social
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. Thomas Merton artenablefind Change image and share on social
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. Thomas Merton artificialhumilitymake Change image and share on social
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. Thomas Merton balancehappinessharmony Change image and share on social
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. Thomas Merton consciencedemanddifficult Change image and share on social
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness. Thomas Merton imaginationleaveman Change image and share on social
When ambition ends, happiness begins. Thomas Merton ambitionbeginend Change image and share on social
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. Thomas Merton destinyfindlife Change image and share on social
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. Thomas Merton analysisexistencefail share on social
