Thomas Merton Quotes

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
Thomas Merton

Living, Compassion, Another

The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.
Thomas Merton

Less, Squeeze, Tighter

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
Thomas Merton

Real, Choices, Deepest

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
Thomas Merton

God, Courage, Him

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
Thomas Merton

Hope, Future, Find

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.
Thomas Merton

Life, God, Ways

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.
Thomas Merton

Work, Learning, Done

We do not exist for ourselves.
Thomas Merton

Ourselves, Exist

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
Thomas Merton

Life, Death, Heart

A daydream is an evasion.
Thomas Merton

Daydream, Evasion

Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.
Thomas Merton

Reverence, Treats, Due

Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.
Thomas Merton

Fire, Rich, Honest

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.
Thomas Merton

Time, America, Wonderful

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 31, 1915

Died: December 10, 1968

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