The plain truth can be the hardest thing to see when it's about yourself. If you don't want to know the truth, you'll do anything to disguise it.
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Sara Pennypacker
History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself...
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A.S. Byatt
Better you know yourself better you become able to choose between your own opinions and society's for your best possible future.
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Deepak Burfiwala
Hypocrisy is wretched because the hypocrite says with his tongue what is not in his heart. He wrongs his tongue and oppresses his heart. But if the heart is sound, the condition of the tongue follows suit. We are commanded to be upright in speech,...
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Hamza Yusuf
Fly free spirits fly, for if you reach heaven before me, then at least I know to this world I have more love to apply. " ~ Roy Hale
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Roy Hale
More Quotes By Thomas Merton
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then...
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully...
If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.
To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it...
