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
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. – Thomas Merton
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. – Thomas Merton
Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ. – Thomas Merton
When you have fans who are hassling you the entire game and you ignore them, they respect you because their job is to try and distract you. And if they dont distract you, that means youre focused on doing your job. And who knows, by the end, sometimes you even win them over. – Robert Griffin III