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Quote by Thomas Merton
Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves al

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. – Thomas Merton

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Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it. – Thomas Merton

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Attachment to spiritual things is.. just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else. – Thomas Merton

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The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly and perfectly himself: for his personality and individuality are perfected in their true order, the spiritual, interior order. – Thomas Merton

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You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans. – George Carlin

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Why do I not seek some real good one which I could feel, not one which I could display? – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Dont follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise. – Joan Rivers

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When good Americans die they go to Paris. – Oscar Wilde

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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. – Jerome K. Jerome, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

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