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Quote by Thomas Merton
Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather,

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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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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Love
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Attachment to spiritual things is.. just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else. – Thomas Merton

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Attachment
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Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward. – Thomas Merton

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The future is called perhaps, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you. – Tennessee Williams

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Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy. – Alfred Adler

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The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind. – Woodrow Wilson

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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. – Eric Hoffer

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It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within ones own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled. – Buddha

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Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. – Charles Caleb Colton

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