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Thomas Merton
American
Author
Born:
Jan 31
,
1915
Died:
Dec 10
,
1968
God
Life
Love
Me
Own
You
Related authors:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
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Mark Twain
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Zig Ziglar
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
You
Wonderful
Dangerous
College
Every
Fine
Catalogue
Looks
Course
October
Go
Begin
America
Wonderful Time
Anything
Season
Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
Thomas Merton
Good
Soul
Peace
Heart
Eyes
Joy
Christ
Open
Feet
Dry
Your
Keep
The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.
Thomas Merton
You
Tighter
Squeeze
Less
A daydream is an evasion.
Thomas Merton
Dreams
Daydream
Evasion
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
You
Heart
Eyes
Light
Chill
Own
Kind
Marrow
See
Someone
Clearly
Reacting
Within
Very
Center
Your
I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.
Thomas Merton
Me
People
Obey
Own
Universe
Other
My Own
Make
Cannot
Conform
Fancy
Whims
Body
Even
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
You
Solitude
Will
Unless
Must
Find
Something
Rather
Never
Look
Deepening
Present
Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
Thomas Merton
Love
Spiritual
Else
Inordinate
Spiritual Things
Attachment
Just
Just As Much
Anything
Anything Else
Much
Things
Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.
Thomas Merton
Advertising
Due
Reverence
Products
Seriousness
Treats
Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.
Thomas Merton
Desperation
Fire
Rich
Cosmic
Over
Wheels
Victories
Honest
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