The beginning of love is to let those we love be p... -Thomas Merton

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Thomas Merton Quotes to Explore

On the last day of January 1915, in the second year of the Great War, down in the shadow of some French mountains on the borders of Spain, I came into...

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth an...

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what t...

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you wil...

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its ow...

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the d...

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a ...

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with Go...

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ....

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voya...

Relationship Quotes to Explore

The more you're real with people, and the more you let people help you, the more they get to understand how you operate as an entrepreneur. The strong...

I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of...

I'm definitely one of those chicks who want to be in a relationship. I need somebody who can make me laugh and entertain me....

Bad Bunny and I aren't brothers, but we have a good relationship. We compete. We'll compete until the day we die, because he says he's the best, and I...

The strategy we must follow is to defend the special relationship between Great Britain and Europe and, more specifically, between Europe and France....

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them....

Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up....

The more we can be in a relationship with those who might seem strange to us, the more we can feel like we're neighbors and all members of the human f...

People don't understand that I have a great relationship with my parents - like, how that can exist. There isn't any judgment. They don't necessarily ...

I am not possessive at all. In every relationship I have had, the girl has left me. And the fundamental complaint has been that I am self-contained. I...