Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. T
  4. Thomas Merton
  5. Happiness

Thomas Merton Quotes about Happiness

All Thomas Merton Quotes Acceptance Acting Age Ambition Anxiety Art Attitude Awakening Awareness Being Alone Being Single Being Yourself Belief Charity Children Choices Christ Christianity Church College Communication Compassion Consciousness Contemplation Country Courage Creation Darkness Desire Destiny Devil Discipline Doubt Earth Effort Eternity Evil Exercise Failing Faith Freedom Giving Glory God Grace Gratitude Happiness quotes Hate Hatred Heart Heaven Hell Home Humanity Humility Identity Imagination Individuality Inspiration Inspirational Integrity Intuition Jesus Journey Joy Justice Language Liberty Life Logic Loneliness Love Lying Meditation Mercy Mindfulness Moon Overcoming Passion Peace Perfection Poverty Praise Prayer Pride Purpose Rain Reality Reflection Responsibility Risk Sacrifice Silence Simplicity Sin Solitude Sorrow Soul Spirituality Spring Study Suffering Teaching Temptation Today Truth Unconditional Love Understanding Unity Values Violence Vision Waiting War Wisdom Work Out Worry Worship Writing
Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.

Thomas Merton
Happiness, Ambition, Mindfulness
Thomas Merton, Lawrence Cunningham (1996). “A search for solitude: pursuing the monk's true life”, Harper San Francisco

A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found: for a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough to make us happy.

Thomas Merton
Happiness, Enough, Bigs
Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.1, Shambhala Publications

We do not exist for ourselves.

Thomas Merton
Life, Happiness, Success
Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

Thinking about monastic ideals is not the same as living up to them, but at any rate such thinking has an important place in a monk's life, because you cannot begin to do anything unless you have some idea what you are trying to do.

Thomas Merton
Happiness, Thinking, Ideas

You May Also Like: