"The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived."

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Source : Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.52, Macmillan

Thomas Merton

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“You really can change the world if you care enough.”
“A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife.”
“It's time that we move from good words to good works, from sound bites to sound solutions.”

Source : "Today on the Presidential Campaign Trail". www.foxnews.com. February 20, 2008.
“The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.”
“No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are.”

Source : "Jackson Rathbone and Aimee Teegarden Interview AIM HIGH". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 17, 2011.
“Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.”
“I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me ... and plenty of other people . . . twenty years and the war to learn to stick to my class and ask the price of things before touching them, let alone setting my heart on them.”
“The thing about California is that it's kind of a dream, and I started to feel like I was living in a dream. I still feel like that. Because of that I think I've been able to realize a lot of things that were just ideas. When I was living in New York City, it's such a rat race, it's so competitive and everything is so concrete and in your face all the time. If you're like, "I'm gonna be a writer!" Everybody's like, "Yeah, you and all the other ***** on the subway." There isn't a lot of space for the detached, free-floating movement of the imagination.”

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