Thomas Merton Quotes

If you do the things you enjoy and are good at, I really have a feeling that that will lead to having a fulfilling life, and people with fulfilling lives are able to be 'good people.'

The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating.

My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Getting the most out of life is giving life your most.

At the end of the day, life's about realising one's human potential. I don't know if I've realised mine, but I've certainly gone a long way towards realising some goals and some dreams.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I'm doing, they should do it. And what I want to do is find things that would represent a unique contribution to the world - the contribution that only I, and my portfolio of talents, can make happen. Those are my priorities in life.

My life guided me to express my full potential.

Every person can reach a full life.

The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.

Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.

Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.