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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“ sometimes the unknown is better for all involved ”

- Azelene Williams

“ Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can. ”

- Nicholas Sparks

“ Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. ”

- Haruki Murakami

“ A bad attitude is like a flat tire, you can’t get very far until you change it. ”

- Unknown

“ You see, when we set goals that feel safer and achievable, we are caving in to our own preconceived notions of what we are capable of. We’re not pushing past our comfort zone; we’re just settling for status quo. ”

- Ruth Soukup

“ Do it big, do it right, and do it with style. ”

- Fried Astaire

“ I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me. ”

- Taylor Swift

“ After your first failure, the occurrence of a second failure closely depends on what you have learned from your past mistakes and whether or not you have drawn some valuable lessons. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ I do not write feelings, emotions I do not write after that day, about love anything I do not write my silence scream somewhere inside me there are my bloody wounds on paper words I do not write ”

- Mohammed Zaki Ansari

“ True Love is not something that will ever happen in an instant....because the summary of our lives is not in an instant. Love at First sight is just infatuation. True Love.....is like a fine wine. It has layers upon layers of depth and flavor, all of which gets better if it is aged and cared for correctly. True Love is the gradual deep understanding of your Spouse, and a spiritual empathy towards them. As they get older, and change, you eagerly continue to turn pages of your lives together, studying and empathizing with a person that you do not need to be defensive or suspicious of. ”

- sangeeta mann

“ Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ In love, trust is a tonic and suspicion is a poison. ”

- Abhijit Naskar

“ Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly. ”

- Dalai Lama

“ Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts. ”

- Richard Crawshaw

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

- Leo Buscaglia

“ Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ You are attracted to the love you didn't receive as a child ”

- Jodi Ann Quarrie

“ Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ It is now how good you are, it’s how good you want to be. ”

- Unknown

“ Be Brave, Be Bold! Never allow fear to dictate your choices. Use your VOICE & trust in your abilities. ”

- Rosalie Bardo

“ What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution. ”

- Ram Dass

“ Anything I ever did for a person was out of love, nobody can ever finesse me. ”

- Genereux Philip