Famous Quotes

"Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul."

Thomas Merton on Inspirational

More quotes about Inspirational

• "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."

  Helen Keller on Inspirational

• "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

  Aristotle Onassis on Inspirational

• "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

  Robert Louis Stevenson on Inspirational

• "Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell."

  Bill Copeland on Inspirational

• "Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain."

  Joseph Campbell on Inspirational

More quotes by Thomas Merton

• "Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another."

• "Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."

• "Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how."

• "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."

• "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."