Quotes by Thomas Merton

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

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

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.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

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.