Thomas Merton Quotes

My eyes and spirit have opened up since I found someone that I get to share my life with.

Life is not about making dough or how many movies you can make in a year. It's about finding someone that you can share things with.

If one is aware and alive, then it is one's relationships that make you live. It makes life worth living.

Love is the outreach of self toward completion.

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Often, marriage was solitude, with company.

We all want to find someone and be loved.

A lot of the things that we do in life are to find connection.

It's a real gift when you find someone to share your life with.

There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.

I've found a woman I can relate to. That's something - and I don't even feel sappy saying it - that, if anyone has that, don't lose it, because it's probably the only thing that you can ever really find any satisfaction from.

It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

You don't want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That's what I'm missing right now.

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.

Of all the myriad ways we define love, there is perhaps none more honest and powerful than this: Great love is rooted in great partnership.

How we need another soul to cling to.

I don't think that we really know our animals. We think we do because we're humans, and we think we can control things like that. We don't know anybody that we love. It could be a girlfriend or a cat. I think we just have to be at peace with that.

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.