Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order.

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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

Love

"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

Love

"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

Love

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"There is beauty in the Beast, just as there is darkness in the most perfect human."

- Beauty and the Beast

Balance

"When you leave work on Friday, leave work. Don’t let technology follow you throughout your weekend (answering text messages and emails). Take a break. You will be more refreshed to begin the workweek if you have had a break."

- Catherine Pulsifer

Balance

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

- Albert Einstein

Balance

"Make your Tuesday as productive as possible, but don’t forget to enjoy the journey."

Balance

"You can’t always hold on to the things that are important. By letting them go we gain something else."

- Kunio Yaobi

Balance