Thomas Merton Quotes

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

Thomas Merton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I hate to cook, but I love to eat. I would want to be able to conjure yummy and healthy meals by wiggling my nose!

Jessica Parker Kennedy

LoveHateHealthyWantEatNose

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn't. In fact, I didn't even know you were supposed to have one.

John C. Maxwell

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I eat vegetarian at home, so I always have yogurt and milk, eggs, whole wheat bread, whole grains. Lots of vegetables and fruit. Cereals and oatmeal. That type of thing.

Maye Musk

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I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

Maya Angelou

MotherMeParentKindBecame

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

Jean Piaget

KnowledgeViewProblemPoint Of View

Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years.

Steven Spielberg

AloneHistorySocial MediaMedia

When you're under a microscope from an early age, you realize that people aren't always going to like you. And that's OK. And you're going to fail publicly, and that's OK, too.

Ronan Farrow

AgePeopleYouEarlyRealizeAlways

Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.

Mike Pence

PeopleAmericanPrioritiesValues

No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.

David Sedaris

BetterTryEvenThanDialectShould

I'd see my daddy about once a month, and I missed him. I would have loved to have had more of him. He was tall, attractive and very quiet, very gentle. He had a wife who I don't think ever really liked me much.

Cherie Lunghi

WifeMeThinkLovedQuietMissed

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Alice Walker

LiveSurpriseNothingExpect

It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis.

Paul von Hindenburg

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