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

When ambition ends, happiness begins. – 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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Thomas Merton
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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. – Thomas Merton

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Death
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Thomas Merton
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Happiness
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. – Ashley Montagu

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Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect. – Adam Clarke

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Happiness

I refuse to accept other peoples ideas of happiness for me. As if theres a one size fits all standard for happiness. – Kanye West

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Happiness

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Every noble work is at first impossible. – Thomas Carlyle

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The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived. – Ken Lucas

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