Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

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"Love is, in fact, an intensification of life, a completeness, a fullness, a wholeness of life."

- Thomas Merton

Love

"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

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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."

- Thomas Merton

Love

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

- Thomas Merton

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"There is only one desire: to find the promised land and the freedom of a pure love that is without concern for anything else but love."

- Thomas Merton

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"It is not what you look like on the outside, but what you are on the inside that counts."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"It is the heart that makes a person beautiful, not the outward appearance."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

- Buddha

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"It’s not always possible to do what we want to do, but it’s important to believe in something before you actually do it."

- Might Guy

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"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."

- Josephus Daniels

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