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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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We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness. – Thomas Merton

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Imagination
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A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire. – Thomas Merton

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Life
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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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Dont go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. – Mark Twain

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If you love life, dont waste time, for time is what life is made up of. – Bruce Lee

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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. – George Washington Carver

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My favorite things in life dont cost any money. Its really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. – Steve Jobs

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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. – William Hazlitt

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