Thomas Merton
"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 voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous."
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"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."