Quotes of Thomas Merton

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An author in a Trappist monastery is like a duck in a chicken coop. And he would give anything in the world to be a chicken instead of a duck.

- Thomas Merton

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“ I may not be where I want to be, but if I stop now, I'll NEVER get where I'm going! ”

- Laura Lynch

“ The only time we can effect an action is now. So learn from the past, have a vision for your future but act NOW. Today will soon be your past so don’t miss your present. ? ”

- Andrea McGibbon

“ In case you never get a second chance: don't be afraid!" "And what if you do get a second chance?" "You take it! ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. ”

- Andrew Carnegie

“ A lot goes into everything but sometimes you have to sacrifice everything in order to achieve a lot. ”

- Kayambila Mpulamasaka

“ Motorbike Poem by Malay Roy Choudhury I am on motorbike yezdi yamaha when flanked by horizon gallop backwards through sand blizzard tinsel clouds explode at my feet without helmet and speedsplit air at eighty in midsummer simoon each soundcart recedes onrushing lorries flee in a flash No time to brood but Yes accident expected anytime may even turn into a junkheap in a droughtnursed field. Translation of Bengali original 'Motor Cycle ”

- Malay Roychoudhury

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ The price of your birthday outfits should go costlier with respect to the ages you lived. ”

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“ Your dream should always be greater than your grievances ”

- Aadarsh Singh

“ the saddest thing is to be a minute to someone, when you've made them your eternity. ”

- Sanober Khan

“ Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow. ”

- J. M. Barrie

“ To the wellorganized mind, death is but the next great adventure. ”

- J.K. Rowling

“ It’s not bragging if you can back it up. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. ”

- William Arthur Ward

“ Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

“ When you know my love, my love will warm you. ”

- Ruby Dee

“ You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending. ”

- James R. Sherman

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- Alice Hoffman

“ Sometimes the hardest one to see . . .is the one standing right before you. ”

- Lenora Porch

“ You can't stop dreaming just because the night never seems to end. ”

- Curtis Tyrone Jones

“ Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new. ”

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“ If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner. ”

- Tallulah Bankhead

“ At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ”

- Plato