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

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

- 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

"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