Thomas Merton

"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 God."

Top Thomas Merton Quotes

"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another."

"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony."

"Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul."

"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."

"Perhaps I am stronger than I think."

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