English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Thomas Merton Quotes

Thomas Merton quote: "The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly..."

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves and not to twist them to fit our own image.

Thomas Merton

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Noam Chomsky quote: "Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a..."
Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it. Noam Chomsky
There is no reason why, with the huge potential for market out there in the world for fuel-efficient vehicles, we can't be the cutting edge for change. Jennifer Granholm
At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived. Jane Austen
I love you so much I’ll never be able to tell you; I’m frightened to tell you. I can always feel your heart. Dance tunes are always right: I love you body and soul: —and I suppose body means that I want to touch you and be in bed with you, and i suppose soul means that i can hear you and see you and love you in every single, single thing in the whole world asleep or awake Dylan Thomas
Real destiny takes everything—the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure—and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it. Lois McMaster Bujold
Bernard Hinault quote: "As long as I breathe, I attack."
As long as I breathe, I attack. Bernard Hinault
In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other. Karl Liebknecht
I've found even after nearly 30 years of doing this, there are all kinds of new surprises that rear their heads at various times and I truly believe that 51% of the images, success takes place in the darkroom. John Sexton
I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some of them, but you know our race has all colors. Billy Eckstine
Ang Lee quote: "After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to..."
After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism. Ang Lee
Contrary to what is generally believed, meaning and sense were never the same thing, meaning shows itself at once, direct, literal, explicit, enclosed in itself, univocal, if you like, while sense cannot stay still, it seethes with second, third and fourth senses, radiating out in different directions that divide and subdivide into branches and branchlets, until they disappear from view, the sense of every word is like a star hurling spring tides out into space, cosmic winds, magnetic... Jose Saramago
if the teenage kids want to carouse, that's where they do it. They make bonfires, and drink too much and smoke dope, and grope around in one another's clothing as if they've just invented it, and smash their parents cars up on the way back to town. Margaret Atwood
John Ashcroft quote: "The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's..."
The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's banks because bank robberies have been a priority. John Ashcroft
Sun Tzu quote: "All war is deception."
All war is deception. Sun Tzu
Kristin Hersh quote: "I'm beginning to think I have two years encountering sexism..."
I'm beginning to think I have two years encountering sexism without really realising it. Kristin Hersh