WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:39:47 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg avoid – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Merton, Thomas -- The Seven Storey Mountain (1948) https://wist.info/merton-thomas/31958/ https://wist.info/merton-thomas/31958/#respond Wed, 23 Dec 2015 19:05:01 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=31958 The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.


Thomas Merton (1915-1968) French-American religious and writer [a.k.a. Fr. M. Louis]
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