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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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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Future
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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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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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A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. – Muhammad Ali

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Im so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life! – Eleanor Roosevelt

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Our search should not be a flight from life. – TKV Desikachar

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The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes anothers, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises. – Leo Buscaglia

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