Quote by Thomas Merton
When ambition ends, happiness begins. - Thomas Merton

When ambition ends, happiness begins. – Thomas Merton

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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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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. – 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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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. – Ovid

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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all. – Jean de La Bruyere

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Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. – Doug Larson

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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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