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Take more time, cover less ground.


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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.



Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.



‎"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.

‎"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.



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

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



Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.



In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.

In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.



People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.



Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.

Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.



Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.



It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.

It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.





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The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.



To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.

To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.



I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.

I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.



I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.



To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.

To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.



Each justice hires their own clerks, and applications are made individually to the justices. It isn't a group decision.

Each justice hires their own clerks, and applications are made individually to the justices. It isn't a group decision.



Whoever has known the love of God loves the whole world and never murmurs against his fate, for the burden of sorrow for the sake of God gains eternal joy.

Whoever has known the love of God loves the whole world and never murmurs against his fate, for the burden of sorrow for the sake of God gains eternal joy.



You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.

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This page presents the quote "Take more time, cover less ground.". Author of this quote is Thomas Merton. This quote is about mindfulness, focus, patience, more time,.