Best quotes by Thomas Merton on Love

Checkout quotes by Thomas Merton on Love

• ‟ 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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• ‟ 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
  

• ‟ 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
  

• ‟ 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
  

• ‟ We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.

  - Thomas Merton
  

• ‟ Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

  - Thomas Merton