Quote by Thomas Merton
We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us. – Thomas Merton

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The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly and perfectly himself: for his personality and individuality are perfected in their true order, the spiritual, interior order. – Thomas Merton

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Personality
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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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Love
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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

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In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time. – Will Rogers

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The greatest part of a writers time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. – Samuel Johnson

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Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame. – Robert Anton Wilson

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I try to keep it real. I dont have time to worry about what Im projecting to the world. Im just busy being myself. – Demi Lovato

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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Each person must live their life as a model for others. – Rosa Parks

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When I was a child, I was unable to go to any type of sleepaway summer camp because of health issues. Once I learned about the Lopez Foundation, I knew I wanted to get involved, send kids with kidney disease away to camp so they can still experience overnight camp with medical needs at hand. – Sarah Hyland

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In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual. – William Robertson Smith

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