Words to Live By -- Thomas Merton

“Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.”

"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy."

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

“Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.”

“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.”

“The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.”

“The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.”

~Thomas Merton