Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
Society can provide us with material goods, but it cannot provide us with purpose and meaning.
Silence is the language of God, and everything else is a poor translation.
To be a saint means to be myself.
The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds.
We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject.
In order to become whole, we must first embrace our brokenness.
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image.
Hope is the power that gives us the courage to step out in faith.
The greatest tragedy of our time is the loss of connection between ourselves and the natural world.
Every moment and every event of every person’s life on earth plants something in their soul.
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
We must make haste to find joy and beauty in the present moment.
The deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion.
Thomas Merton Quotes part 2
We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves.
The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you.
We are not born to be successful; we are born to be faithful.
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image.
The greatest tragedy of our time is the loss of connection between ourselves and the natural world.
Every moment and every event of every person’s life on earth plants something in their soul.
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
We must make haste to find joy and beauty in the present moment.
The deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion.
We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves.
The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you.
We are not born to be successful; we are born to be faithful.
Contemplation is the art of seeing the reality behind all the illusions.
We must learn to listen to the silence, for it is the direct path to God.
The attainment of the present moment is the attaining of eternity.
Our focus should not be on being successful, but on being of service to others.
Our greatness lies not in what we have, but in what we give.
The true measure of success is not in what we accomplish, but in how we love.
The greatest journey we can take is the journey within ourselves.
True freedom is not the absence of constraints, but the presence of inner peace.
We are all pilgrims on the same journey, seeking the same truth.
The greatest victory we can achieve is the victory over ourselves.
The purpose of life is not to be happy, but to be fully alive.
Silence is not the absence of noise, but the presence of inner stillness.
The truest form of prayer is not in words, but in the silent opening of our hearts.
It is in our brokenness that we find our true strength.
The beauty of life lies in the acceptance of its imperfections.
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