Thomas Merton Quotes

We Cannot Be Happy If We Expect To Live All The Time At The Highest Peak Of Intensity. Happiness Is Not A Matter Of Intensity But Of Balance And Order And Rhythm And Harmony.
Music Is Pleasing Not Only Because Of The Sound But Because Of The Silence That Is In It: Without The Alternation Of Sound And Silence There Would Be No Rhythm. If We Strive To Be Happy By Filling All The Silences Of Life With Sound, Productive By Turning All Life's Leisure Into Work, And Real By Turning All Our Being Into Doing, We Will Only Succeed In Producing A Hell On Earth.

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