"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony." ― Thomas Merton Topic(s): Happiness Tags: happiness, matter More From Thomas Merton "Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience." "Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ." "The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error." More In Happiness "Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness."― Maurice Maeterlinck "But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved."― Lafcadio Hearn "The last part, the part you’re now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness."― Charles Van Doren