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A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.

Thomas Merton

What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others.
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Acceptance Desire Generosity Goodness Greatness Life Live Love Ourselves Self Love
Our real journey in life is interior; It is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts. Never was it more necessary to respond to that action.
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Action Deep Grace Growth Heart Journey Necessary Reality Respond
Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn’t already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
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Beginning Image Love Ourselves Perfection Reflection
A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
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Desire End Leadership Life Live Man Philosophy Service Spiritual Yourself
Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.
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Weaknesses and deficiencies play a most important part in all our lives. It is because of them that we need others and others need us. We are not all weak in the same spots, and so we supplement and complete one another, each one making up in himself for the lack in another.
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Himself Important Live Need Play Role Weakness
Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
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Inspirational One Liner Strong Thinking
Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally.
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Enough Need Ourselves Silence Voice
Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can only discover from within.
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Discover Name Philosophy Yourself
A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.
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Bad Failure Greatness Man Success
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.
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Beginning Love Perfection Willing
Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
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Eyes God Goodness Happiness Heart Joy Peace
It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.
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Belief Humanity Ourselves
We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.
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When your tongue is silent, you can rest in the silence of the forest. When your imagination is silent, the forest speaks to you. It tells you of its unreality and of the Reality of God. But when your mind is silent, then the forest suddenly becomes magnificently real and blazes transparently with the Reality of God.
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