Quotes by Merton, Thomas

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform >>

I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or >>

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the inter >>

Quotations about Responsibility

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work >>

Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks natur >>

Psychologically I should say that a person becomes an adult at the poi >>

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.

Merton, Thomas