Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Merton

For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be.

Thomas Merton

We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.

Thomas Merton

The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He shows Himself to us, and yet at the same time that He would not have inspired us to seek Him unless we had already found Him.

Thomas Merton

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds

Thomas Carlyle

Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.

Thomas Carlyle

Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.

Sam Levenson

It's not the sugar that makes the tea sweet, but the stirring.

Saadi

A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence.

Saadi

Do to me, O Allah, what is worthy of Thee; And not what is worthy of me.

Jermaine Jackson

I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in an Islamic society. Time would come when the world would be obliged to accept this reality.

Amy Sedaris

I've been to some funerals where there's a lot of laughing - it's about celebrating their new journey. I can't think of anything. There's humor in everything. There's gotta be humor in everything.

M. Scott Peck

Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers. The right road for one is the wrong road for another...The journey of life is not paved in blacktop; it is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness.

John Bingham

The joy is in the journey, not the destination. We have a better chance of seeing where we are when we stop trying to get somewhere else.

Steve Squyres

This is a journey into the unknown, to something completely new.

O. Henry

The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.

Scott Pera

It's been an unbelievable journey. To do what we've done is incredible. I don't say it very often, but we're really good.

Patton Oswalt

The idea of, 'The journey is the destination' is put into action by browsing in an indie record store. Besides, a human being is a much better guide than a 'More Like This' link on the internet.

Kristanna Loken

I'd like to go to Brazil I think. Do a little South America trip.

Mark Victor Hansen

The journey to financial freedom starts the MINUTE you decide you were destined for prosperity, not scarcity- for abundance, not lack. Isn't there a part of you that has always known that? Can you see yourself living a bounteous life- a life of more than enough? It only takes one minute to decide. Decide now.