"The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves."

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Thomas Merton

#Love Is Quotes

“The basic nature of all conscious beings is 'self-existing wakefulness'. Self-existing meaning spontaneous or without effort and wakefulness meaning natural awareness. To ignore our basic nature, is to wander in fear and confusion, to directly realise our essential nature is to be Enlightened.”
“I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty line, we're engaging in piracy.”
“Pessimism is the product of a hostile social state. Its answer is the substitution of a friendly social state. If this can be done it will disappear.”
“Just after Kim Jong Il's death, the official news agency put out an article saying that under Kim Jong Il's rule, the people had been like naive children without a care in the world.”
“I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.”
“As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl. [Fr., Honteux comme un renard qu'une poule aurait pris.]”
“Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of making a woman's life everyone else's business--you have to dig out a little place that's only yours.”
“By the time I was 9, I was frequently asked to play exhibitions at grand openings, fund-raisers for charities, and other special events.”

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