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In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it. ↗

— Paul Merton

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There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won't forget them. ↗

— Joyce Meyer

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On my first day in New York a guy asked me if I knew where Central Park was. When I told him I didn't he said, 'Do you mind if I mug you here?'. ↗

— Paul Merton

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A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#either #end #image #life #live

Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music. ↗

— Pat Metheny

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By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. ↗

— Arthur Miller

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