Thomas Merton Quotes

I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community.

If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.

There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.

I always seem drawn to people who need help, and I've needed help, too. I've had to learn to love myself.

Love yourself. Then find something to love beyond yourself.

I learn something new about love every day. For example, loving yourself is just as important as loving other people.

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That's a wealth that's priceless. You can't buy compassion.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.

To be loved is important as is having a sense of accomplishment but to love is equally important in life especially when it is combined with taking action to do something for someone else to make their life better.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Hopefully this movie will help people understand that if a child is never given the tools to know how to love others and love and respect themselves, this is what happens.

I often write about nonreligious people, and I try to find situations where their sense of humanity is restored or discovered. I think you can be a good person in many ways. And I think you often have to be careful that prayer can seem superficial, because it's a very complicated thing to love your neighbor as yourself.

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.