"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of..." - Thomas Merton

🌾 Simplicity

“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony”

A well-ordered simple life produces deeper happiness than intensity ever could

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“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.”

— Thomas Merton

“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.”

— Thomas Merton

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves”

— Thomas Merton

“Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy”

— Thomas Merton

“A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters.”

— Thomas Merton

“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.”

— Thomas Merton

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“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”

— Mark Twain

“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“The peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.”

— Wendell Berry

“Smile, breathe, and go slowly.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.”

— Alan Watts

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”

— Epictetus