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“The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.”
Thomas Merton quotes (American and Trappist Monk t Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey in Trappist, Kentucky, 1915-1968)

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“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.”
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“The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that 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”
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“We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.”
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“We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.”
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“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 they do or what they have - for their usefulness.”
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“We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.”
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“A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.”
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“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
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“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.”
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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.”
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