Quote by Thomas Merton
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhyt

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. – Thomas Merton

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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

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Death
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The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of Gods mercy to me. – Thomas Merton

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God
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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

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. – Mildred Barthel

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I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. – Hugh Laurie

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No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it. – Helen Keller

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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. – Epictetus

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