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Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, b

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how. – Thomas Merton

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In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for finding himself. If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. – Thomas Merton

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Life
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Thomas Merton
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The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error. – Thomas Merton

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God
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Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. – Thomas Merton

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Courage without conscience is a wild beast. – Robert Green Ingersoll

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I beg you take courage the brave soul can mend even disaster. – Catherine the Great

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage. – Michel de Montaigne

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Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if you have to dig a little. – Tori Amos

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Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesnt show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet. – Jeff Goodell

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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is natures inexorable imperative. – H. G. Wells

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My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody. – Wilkie Collins

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