The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

Author: Thomas Merton

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

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

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.

I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.