“If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.”
Thomas Merton
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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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“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.”

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