Thomas Merton

Quotes by Thomas Merton

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

Thomas Merton

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Thomas Merton

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 own reward.

Thomas Merton

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.

Thomas Merton