"Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it."
― Thomas Merton
Topic(s):
Hope
More From Thomas Merton
- "If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell."
- "Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another."
- "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."
More In Hope
- "Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."― Friedrich Nietzsche
- "I’ve flown across America, I’ve scaled fences, I’ve stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I’m a hopeless romantic. There’s no hope for me."― Joel Madden
- "At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media."― Sean Parker