Thomas Merton Quotes

A life lived in love will never be dull.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

I believe if we have something that we love to do, that can save our lives. That can get us through.

I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle.

If you can't get excited about living life, then what are you doing?

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

It's a privilege to do what I do for a living - to take people out of their miserable day, or to educate somebody, or make somebody laugh, or fall in love with an idea. How good is that? And I get paid to do it!

I love to sing and perform. It is what I do and love. It completes my life.

There is only one secret. To love what you are doing.

I carry on singing because I love it. The closer you are to the end, the more you understand how important it is.

I think love and beauty are what life is all about.

Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl?

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

I do what I do because I love it.

The truest drive comes from doing what you love.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

It is not sacrifice if you love what you're doing.

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.

I love to go to the studio and stay there 10 or 12 hours a day. I love it. What is it? I don't know. It's life.

I am very fortunate to be doing something I completely love, so it is certainly not hard to get motivated. Watching people sing along and put their hands in the air is a very powerful thing. I'm 63, but I don't feel it. I feel like I'm in my 40s. I enjoy life.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

I think I've found a purpose in acting; it's something I truly love and truly enjoy. It makes me happy. It makes me understand more about life, in front of the camera, than what I'm living beyond the camera.

Passion is what adds so much value to life. And if you think about the things that you do, there's so much juice potential for them if you do it.

Being a father makes everything in the world make sense.