Thomas Merton, No Man Is An Island

Quotes

• “Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a 'means ...”
• “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit ...”
• “True happiness is not found in any other reward than that of being united with God. If I seek some other reward besides ...”
• “Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sou...”
• “A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.”