Thomas Merton Quotes

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Whatever I did in 1960, half a century ago, I couldn't do that today and enter the field. The field has changed so much, you have to adapt to the times whatever you're doing. That's the reality of life: you have to be a different person today than you had to be then.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Life is one big transition.

Life is a university, and you never graduate. Accept that whatever happens to you, no matter how terrible, is there to teach you. Your job is to learn and do what you have to.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

A lot has transpired in my life.

A man can be wiser today than he was yesterday.

Error is the stuff of which the web of life is woven, and he who lives longest and wisest is only able to weave out the more of it.

We have changed because we have learned.

It's very easy to think that the way things are is the way things will stay, and life just isn't like that.

I've been through a lot of changes.

Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.

If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?

In life, unlike in movies, people don't change - what's the word I'm looking for? - absolutely. They change a bit, slowly.

People mature. They learn. They get better at things. You're different when you're 45 than when you're 25.

Everything's a learning experience.

Life is like school. You aren't going to be born knowing what to do in every situation. You learn little by little.

Human beings find change very difficult. They find change is something that can be quite an awkward thing to adjust to. It applies to music. It applies to life. It applies to everything.

Of course you learn from certain moments, and you always get more and more experience, so maybe in the future you will do some different things, but in general, the basics always stay the same.