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Be still:There is no longer any need of comment.It was a lucky windThat blew away his halo with his cares,A lucky sea that drowned his reputation.

Be still:There is no longer any need of comment.It was a lucky windThat blew away his halo with his cares,A lucky sea that drowned his reputation.
– Thomas Merton

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  2. I could have drowned today. If they hadn’t been screaming my name so loudly and if I hadn’t woken up, I would have drowned. – Erica Sehyun Song
  3. I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me. – Thomas Merton
  4. Sometimes she arches away from me and wears a light halo of genius about her. – Priya Parmar
  5. Perhaps they didn’t know they were at sea. Was there a certain percentage of people at sea who lacked the knowledge that they were at sea? – Ben Marcus
  6. Perhaps they didn’t know they were at sea. Was there a certain percentage of people at sea who lacked the knowledge that they were at sea? – Ben Marcus
  7. Get close enough to someone and his or her halo slips–not because they’re bad, but because they’re mortal. – Patricia Raybon
  8. If you can dispense with reputation, then you are free from care. Reputation is only a visitor, but reality is here to stay. – Liezi
  9. Your reputation is in the hands of others. That’s what the reputation is. You can’t control that. The only thing you can control is your character. – Wayne W Dyer
  10. Be more concerned with character than reputation. Character is what you are, reputation is what people think you are. – John Wooden
  11. It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made — so faithful is the public. – Arnold Bennett
  12. …we went to watch the waves that bitter day and the wind took your red cap and mittens – blew them into the sea… – John Geddes
  13. Would you wish that someone about cares you?Start care about someone, Then will you definitely deserve at least one person who cares about you! – JV
  14. Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  15. Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. – HG Wells
  16. When your heart truly adores somebody, your mind perceives a halo on that man’s head. – Toba Beta
  17. Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares? He’s a mile away and you’ve got his shoes! – Billy Connolly
  18. If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky. – SE Hinton
  19. Frankie Perino and I were lucky that day. Lucky to be alive-that’s what everyone said. – Sarah Ockler
  20. And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  21. I manage a toast to the Christmas treeand one to the sweet absurdityin the miracle of the verb to be.Lucky you, lucky me. – Miller Williams
  22. Her fragrance blew him off and his body followed steps he had never learnt in his life. – Faraaz Kazi
  23. Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned. – Thomas Bernhard
  24. A tree will not wither and die because the wind blew away one leaf. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  25. I turned to him and he reached for my hand. It would have been easier to walk away. But the wind still blew around us and the house still stood. – Kate Chisman
  26. Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton
  27. Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton
  28. When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well. – Thomas Merton
  29. For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God’s will, to be what God wants us to be. – Thomas Merton
  30. The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. – Thomas Merton
  31. The deepest need of our darkness is to comprehend the light which shines in the midst of it. – Thomas Merton
  32. But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question. – Thomas Merton
  33. The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them. – Thomas Merton
  34. The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods. – Thomas Merton
  35. In the end, no one can seek God unless he has already begun to find him. – Thomas Merton
  36. All theology is a kind of birthdayEach one who is born Comes into the world as a questionFor which old answersAre not sufficient-¦ – Thomas Merton
  37. Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist. – Thomas Merton
  38. Into this world, this demented innin which there is absolutely no room for him at all,Christ comes uninvited. – Thomas Merton
  39. My mother was informing me, by mail, that she was about to die, and would never see me again. – Thomas Merton
  40. The deepest of level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless … beyond speech … beyond concept. – Thomas Merton

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