“God knows us from within ourselves, not as objects, not as strangers, not as intimates, but as our own selves.”
"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
"Beauty is not about physical perfection, but about authenticity and confidence."
- Beauty and the Beast
Self-awareness
"Beauty is found in the unique qualities that make us who we are."
- Beauty and the Beast
Self-awareness
"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."
- Lily Tomlin
Self-awareness
"Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears."
- Laird Hamilton
Self-awareness
"True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."
Self-awareness