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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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Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ. – 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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Lifes Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. – Benjamin Franklin

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I had no blood relatives till I made some. – Andy Dick

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Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life. – Muhammad Ali

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