Quote by Thomas Merton
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for liv

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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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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We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God. – Thomas Merton

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Life is half spent before we know what it is. – George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651

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A life without cause is a life without effect. – Barbarella

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Life is a bed of water filling from many springs and we seem not to know when one gushing flow will oer flood the banks only to be succeeded by a drought. – Anon.

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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your hearts desire. The other is to gain it. – George Bernard Shaw

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Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself. – Baltasar Gracian

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