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Thomas Merton Quotes

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: January 31, 1915 - December 10, 1968

Topics

Happiness Balance Harmony Matter

It ends up being a terrible movie if you try and please everyone.

Jennifer Coolidge

You Please Everyone Try Everyone Up

I am sort of drawn toward places in the world where there is struggle and conflict.

Anderson Cooper

Struggle I Am Conflict World Places

I'm not sure about public apologies on behalf of other people as far as the motivation for them.

People Motivation Sure Far Public

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Find Matter Absence Far Worse Than

I didn't know how it was to be a bachelor. I never felt like one. I think it's a mental state.

Riteish Deshmukh

Think Know Bachelor Never Mental

For most of human history, there was a ruling class and then there was everybody else. If you were part of everybody else, it wasn't your job to imagine a different future, different ways of doing things. So, imagination is a fairly modern phenomenon.

Future History Job Imagination Doing

If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.

Laughter Audience Show Malicious

I am interested in costume. Clothes in your daily life are important: your choices say something about you, even if what they're saying is about non-choice. And what you wear in a film is crucial.

Life Daily Daily Life I Am Saying

Without Cooperstown, you don't have baseball: Baseball is history.

History Baseball You Without

The first African-American leader was Dr. Martin Luther King.

Leader King First African-American

Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend to the soul as well as the body, or else a living thing must be unhealthy, being diseased in its higher part.

Apollonius of Tyana

Soul Medicine Body Said Living Arts

You know what Oprah taught me? Unless you count as changing your life having a neighborhood dad say to you every morning at the school bus stop, 'You sure don't look as good as you did on 'Oprah!', being on 'Oprah' doesn't change your life.

Life Change Good Morning School Me

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