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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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another. – Thomas Merton

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Mans real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. – Edgar Allan Poe

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I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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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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Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. – Yugoslav Proverb

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You never choose the way that youre raised, its just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where youre in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that youve been formed by your surroundings. – Mia Wasikowska

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Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different. – Ian Hamilton Finlay

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Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. – Edward Dowden

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