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

Other quotes by Thomas Merton

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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Time
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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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Other Quotes from
Future
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Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future. – Ulysses S. Grant

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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present. – Bill Watterson

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Future

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now. – James A. Baldwin

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Future

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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Bulls dont read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929. – James Buchan

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History

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past. – Bryant H. McGill

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Home is where my mom is. – Brittany Murphy

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No good deed goes unpunished. – Clare Boothe Luce

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