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My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.

- Thomas Merton | Life Quotes

Violence is essentially wordless, and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.

- Thomas Merton | Violence Quotes

I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

- Thomas Merton | God Quotes

Perhaps I am stronger than I think.

- Thomas Merton | Self-Confidence Quotes

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

- Thomas Merton | Decisions Quotes

I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

- Thomas Merton | Success and Happiness Quotes

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 | Courage Quotes

My life is ... a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand, as though 1 were led by the hand in a night where I see nothing, but can fully depend on the love and protection of Him who guides me.

- Thomas Merton | Action Quotes

We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another.

- Thomas Merton | Faith Quotes

There is not a flower that opens, not a seed that falls into the ground, and not an ear of wheat that nods on the end of its stalk in the wind that does not preach and proclaim the greatness and the mercy of God to the whole world.

- Thomas Merton | Spirituality Quotes