"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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More From Thomas Merton
- "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."
- "Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another."
- "In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for “finding himself.” If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence."
More In Good
- "Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it’s not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long."― Amy Grant
- "What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?"― E. M. Forster
- "A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed."― Nelson Mandela